OMD3 – Day 27 Wings… – WonderfulWolf

So I immediately knew what I was going to do for the prompt ‘wings’. I have a little pond in my back garden and last month it attracted a beautiful red dragonfly. I was blown away by the intricacy of it’s wings and it stayed long enough (on my washing that was outside) for me to get a photo.

I created the wings by drawing an outline on some paper, placing some thin acetate on top of it and then painted my nail polish on top. I made sure to apply my top coat, Seche Vite, quite thickly. Once dried, I carefully peeled the wings off. As you can see they did leave some black behind where I hadn’t covered it enough top coat, however I trimmed the outlines anyway to make them appear more delicate.

It totally works right! I can’t stop looking at them and, as wholly impractical as they are, I don’t want to take them off!

19 thoughts on “OMD3 – Day 27 Wings…”

These are amazing! That is really clever, I’d love to see you do some butterfly wings this way.

WonderfulWolf
July 27, 2015
3:51 pm

Wow, thanks so much! 😀 I never thought about doing butterfly wings, they could be super pretty. Maybe you should give it a go!?

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DUDE. DUDE. Ok this is insane. I saw the photo in the linkup and I figured it was a 3D decal or something that you bought. Well done!
…these are definitely more “dragonfly” than mine are!

WonderfulWolf
July 27, 2015
9:19 pm

Hahaha Thank you! I’m so glad you like it, and that you appreciate it wasn’t just a ‘stick on thing’! I hope others don’t think that too and that I took an easy option…

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- eklinman
  July 28, 2015
  6:32 am
  
  I mean, it looks incredibly professional. Now i feel bad for thinking that! Great job though. Wow.
- WonderfulWolf
  July 28, 2015
  5:12 pm
  
  Don’t worry, as I’m glad you realised they were actually made! Thanks again! 😀