FairytaleTheatreRR:Nightingale

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So this summer, myself, =seijikat and *evphaedrielle are doing a set of Round Robins. We've each chosen a theme for our own books and they will be circling between us for a total of 5 times [so there will be 15 full spread pages in total, 5 done by each] To start, we were to do the covers [both front and back], the inside covers and front facing page, then the first full spread page to kick off the start of our book. Piccies for the pages will go up when the current one we've done makes a full round between us.

For my book, I chose "Fairytale Theatre" as the theme.

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And here's my first page. I wanted "The Nightingale" to be first up on the list since I'd gotten this perfect idea for it while I was working out my cover pages.

The papers range and all have been 'aged' and stained. The "Emperor" is Japanese over Chinese I know, but I'd been holding onto these paper dolls with elaborate kimono for a few years and wanted to use one here because I thought it was pretty [though don't ask me where the unicorn idea came in because it was rather last minute -lol]. The Nightingale is made of up butterfly wings and tiny gears [and it was such a pain to glue those down, it's so tiny and I wasn't sure the bird would even show up on the page so I outlined it xD] and the "song" is a part of some vintage sheet music I had left over from the Valentine's scrap. After washing it in white paint, I wrote in an exert from the Nightingale story in the background to ease up some of the blank space I had going on.

It's kind of plain, but I'm good with it ^^