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Faux branches wings for nymphs and dryads

“Every time a fairy is born in a tree it becomes a dryad”

Dryads and forest nymphs are one of my favourite topics overall… and they’re often portrays as part tree with leaves and branches. This is a drawing I made myslef of one dryad… of course anything with leaves, green wigs, leave pendants and other extras will help, and we’ll cover that in precision very soon… but today I wanted to share specifically these lovely wings I found and that would fit so well your forest nymph design.

Art of wings have designed a wide range of wings, of all kinds from feather to fairy but I would highlight for their uniqueness precisely some beautiful wings made of faux branches that will fit perfectly this dryad mood. You can find them with or without flowers, and also with ice white crystal that will do perfectly for a snow queen or winter mood. Meghan, the crafter, has really made them affordable and quite stunning… These are some examples. I’d love to have the white ice and the simple mossy green one.

Spread your angel wings and fly!

Date with an angel

The pic above is a shot of a movie from the eighties called Date with an Angel It really was NOT such a good movie but that kind of romantic and entertaining comedies, BUT the angel wings the main character (gorgeous Emmanuelle Beart) had on the movie always stayed in my mind as what I’d love to wear on stage!! Oh yes, such lovely wings with a very obvious animatronic mechanism…! and thus and we´ll cover soon also a post about flapping mechanisms and also some tutorials, harnesses and other gadgets to move your wings live. Of course in black because I have a fascination for ravens, so I often keep some time looking for feather wings here and there… and in our previously post we talked precisely abound “feathers” for those ones lucky to be good at crafts. If you’re in a hurry to get a pair of wings, and don’t want to throw away your money in a pair of cheap halloween wings glued over weak carton that will undo themselves like a dandelion in the wind… If you’re going for the cheap options, these are not bad looking, though you’ll need to reinforce them to the point to be almost “stony” with generous amounts of glue.

Big wings from eproductsales

Eproductsales shop is a company that makes hand-made angel wings with a nice range of designs from small to quite large ones. They are a bit expensive regarding the ratio size/prize but on the other hand seems to be finished with delicacy and made to last. They can take several weeks to make the wings but on the other hand It’s lovely to be able to have a well-made handcrafted and not massively produced set and definitely looks elegant and fine. You can though pick from some “ready to ship” models as well. One of my best friends have purchased me a pair of Jupiter wings :) in black and she got from the lovely Helene wings (both are medium size) that we´ll be using in upcoming concerts for sure and having fun with them… so I’m looking forward to see them close. Both models are shown before. The large model (sigh) above looks really lovely and I would not mind to grab a pair too! am I not greedy?

Eproductsales jupiter wings

But yes… I still dream of something big, remarkable, and hopefully animated with a mechanism… and we’ll post about that soon.

So far we go on with this tutorial I found in Instructables website:

how to make angel wings tutorial in instructables

In this step-by-step tutorial this guy explains in a quite clever way how he made his with a rather striking result as you can see above. It looks so easy, though I’m aware it might be not LOL! but might give a try soon!

Masks by Morgan

Crown mask  (Masks by Morgan)Mystic (masks by Morgan)Maple wood Forest Dweller (Masks by Morgan)Green Fairy (Masks by Morgan)

Morgan Hearsey is a leather mask artist sculptor based in USA. The masks are hand-dyed, painted with non toxic acrylic leather paints, crafted and all come numbered, dated and signed by the artist. They also come with care instructions, ties, ribbons, beads and other embellishments… it really shows that she puts great care to make a customer happy! I am the proud owner of one of her masks (custom artic blue model in white with silver accents) which I often use in my shows, and certainly go back to her site often to see the increasing number of beautiful models. Gothic, dark, colourful, fairy or fantasy… a wealth of mood and colours to choose wether you want to become a Demon Queen, a raven, a Jester, a Green Man… she has options for almost everyone!

Visit MORGAN MASKS SITE

picture: me wearing a Morgan’s mask (custom artic blue with silver accent). Fairy Ball (UK, 2007)