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faerie tale feet fan art.

inspired by everyone’s favorite dreamy-eyed, wrackspurt-seeing ravenclaw luna lovegood, this faerie tale feet piece pays homage to all who live in their own clouds of wonder. and all those who hold fiercely to their beliefs of what others may doubt, especially the unwavering power of friendship.

let’s take a peek through my process and then i’ll reveal all the hidden background icons you’ll find in your new art!

i reread the entire HP series with the intention of painting ron’s feet first, but i couldn’t help but take copious notes on one gal who just hears the drums for herself and dances anyway. so my sketching icon ideas for luna began…

once i narrowed down which shapes i wanted to use in the background, i created my patterned background drawing, here ready to transfer onto watercolor paper. (she’s the same size as my harry & hermione pieces.)

i looooove how glassy and dreamy the soft glazes of purple turned out for the background color. i painted ArouND most of the icons, but a few i gave a light wash over so that the colors would be cohesive and not get too loud. (i always try, even if … — i looooove how glassy and dreamy the soft glazes of purple turned out for the background color. i painted ArouND most of the icons, but a few i gave a light wash over so that the colors would be cohesive and not get too loud. (i always try, even if i do fail, not to make my paintings *too* garishly brite! i promise!)

here’s just in-progress on the luna piece. as you’ll notice, in my original drawing, i was going to give her baby doll shoes (endemic to the hogwarts’ uniform shoes the girls wear) and was going to decorate them with sunflowers, as she wore a sunflo… — here’s just in-progress on the luna piece. as you’ll notice, in my original drawing, i was going to give her baby doll shoes (endemic to the hogwarts’ uniform shoes the girls wear) and was going to decorate them with sunflowers, as she wore a sunflower in her hair to fleur & bill’s wedding in book 7. however, loyal online fans pointed out how it might be a BIT more luna-esque if we gave her her signature hightop kicks. so we went back to the drawing board…

my wonderful cuz-in-law was kind enough to come over on a sunshiny day and pose in her chucks for me. needless to say, if you’ve ever tried, converse (& all sneakers for that matter), are very hard to draw. it took quite a bit of effort and perp… — my wonderful cuz-in-law was kind enough to come over on a sunshiny day and pose in her chucks for me. needless to say, if you’ve ever tried, converse (& all sneakers for that matter), are very hard to draw. it took quite a bit of effort and perpetual re-dos to get them just right. (a few iterations were a bit too ronald mcdonald-like. snorkacks forbid!!)

so here are the NEW shoes, inked over the best i could erase the transfer lines from the original drawing… much better, methinks.

and voila! here’s the right-hand corner of the finished luna painting.

included story iconography

so what all is in the background telling the luna’s story from the three books she appears in? here we go…

her necklace of butterbeer caps
ravenclaw shield (when harry & luna are looking for the now-horcrux diadem of rowena ravenclaw, we get a sneak peek into the mind of a ravenclaw. instead of a password, they have to answer a question. “which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” luna’s reply, “…i think the answer is that a circle has no beginning.” – book 7; pg. 587. definitely my kind of people.)
thestrals [only she and harry can see them pulling the students’ carriages to hogwarts because they have both seen death firsthand (book 5; page 199, from where our painting title derives.) thestrals definitely make hagrid’s care of magical (invisible?) creatures lesson all the more interesting. they also make a spectacular appearance later when the brave DA members must get to the department of mysteries.]
her orange radish earrings (book 5; page 261)
her roaring gryffindor hat to show her support during quidditch
mistletoe (“it’s often infested with nargles.” book 5; pg. 453.)
spectrespecs (“…which gave her the look of a demented, multicolored owl.” book 6; pg. 138.)
gurdyroots (onion-like things given to ron to ward off gulping plimpies.)
her father’s golden deathly hallows symbol (he wore it as a necklace to bill & fleur’s wedding; it lead harry, ron, & hermione to xenophilius’ house in book 7.)
the explosive erumpet horn (which luna and xenophilius incorrectly believed to be a harmless crumple-horned snorkack horn)
the lovegood home (which looked like a rook- the castle chess piece in wizard’s chess.)
silver hare patronus (it’s only mentioned very late in book 7, but they show it in the fifth movie which i find amazing.)
her bright yellow robes worn to the weasley/delacour wedding; i’ve put a silver trim on the hem because of the silver robes she wore when harry took her (as friends) to slughorn’s Christmas party in book 6.
and of course her sneakers are all her own.

original painting has SOLD, but you can contact me for a list of available faerie tale feet pieces.

be sure to check out the other paintings in the

hogwarts’ friends series:

bookish, brave, & brightest. (hermione)

little wizard boy. (harry)

a wizard’s best friend. (ron weasley)

*this is not an officially licensed product, merely the artist's brush and imagination at work with imagery and impressions left by pages of story at a certain wizarding school.*