Whether you need printable, free fairy art to frame and decorate the walls or fairy pictures to use as inspiration for a painting, there should be something in our gallery to meet your requirements for fantasy fairy wings.
We have gathered a collection of exotic, mystical pictures of butterfly fairies as well as cartoon drawings of Disney characters like Tinkerbell. We add new pictures often so check back to see which whimsical, pastel fairies with fluttering gossamer wings have dropped in since your last visit to our magical glen.
HOW TO DRAW YOUR OWN FAIRY ART PRINTS and PICTURES
My favorite fairy pictures and paintings are the ones where the wood nymphs are free and fae frolicking in the forest among the flowers that share their names. Draw them inside the castles having a tea party with the princes and princesses of the manor. Draw them pouring from a dainty teapot while seated on toadstools with mossy green carpets.
FAIRY WINGS and GOWNS
Capturing the light and myriad of colors in delicate fairy wings will be essential. The gossamer gowns and the wings of fairies are often drawn to resemble flowers' petals or the wings of butterflies in modern as well as vintage watercolor drawings and illustrations.
STENCIL YOUR FAIRY PICTURES
If you are not artistic, but draw the line at using stickers or decals there are paint by number mural kits, stenciling kits that will allow you to paint pictures of fairies in any color that you choose with very little artistic ability required.
FAMOUS FAIRY PAINTERS
While fairies, pixies, elves and other fae forest creatures are the subject of many children's beautiful fairy tales and bedtime stories, the famous Flower Fairy series by painter and illustrator, Mary Cicely Barker, can be a source of real botanical information. She has created such wonderful pieces with realistic coloring that you can share with your children. Many popular fairy illustrations have an antique quality as illustrated in the Flower Fairy series. Some examples of these are The Golden Butterfly by Mary St. Clair and the pictures by Lisa Jane.
DISPLAY YOUR FAIRY ART PRINTS and PICTURES
By all means, show off your fairy drawings and watercolors if you are sufficiently talented to draw your own. However, don't let the fact that you aren't gifted with artistic abilities stop you from enjoying fairy pictures in your home. Here are some ways to bring a little magic into your home:
Start decorating gift bags, gift wrap and otherwise nondescript items with fairy art decals and stickers. It's an incredibly cheap way to sprinkle fairy dust to share with your friends.
Fairy stickers, wallpaper cut outs, and decals are also helpful items to use when painting a woodland scene on the nursery wall.
Make a group of fairy princess pictures for your baby girls room or an arrangement of fairy prince pictures for a baby boys room. Hang them on the nursery walls to create a magical gallery of fairy pictures or use them in standing picture frames to decorate tables and wall shelves.
Fairy art has become increasingly popular with digital fairy clip art, posters and prints. Previously found only on the pages of books, it's now marketed as enchanted art for children's bedrooms and baby's nursery wall decor.
PICTURES OF GOTHIC or DARK FAIRIES
There is a genre' of darkly beautiful fairy art prints in a gothic style. Dark fairies are the more mischievous ne'er do well type of fairy often referred to in the fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. These tales are classics and thought of as juvenile literature. However, they may unsuitable for children's bedtime stories as they are fairies of the wicked (or evil) variety.
RECOMMENDED FAIRY PICTURES AND PAINTINGS for a CHILD'S BEDROOM
A dreamy painting that would blend beautifully with nursery rhyme prints would be Moon Boat to Dreamland. While this is not your classic piece of fairy art, I feel it's worthy of inclusion in a fairy themed nursery wall grouping as the print features a fairy manning the oars in the rowboat.
This painting would work with a nursery rhyme nursery theme just as well as a Fairy Nursery Theme. It's one of my favorites, I have it in my own bedroom and I'm a big girl! A lighter and more modern style of fairy art would be the whimsical Felicity Fairy Art Prints that would be really cute.
BEYOND FAIRY ART PRINTS
Look beyond framed fairy pictures for your fairy wall decorations. With some imagination and some framing hardware and hangers there are many fairy themed items that will add to your fairy picture gallery. There are flower fairy print fabrics available that can be used to make baby quilts that can in turn be used as wallhangings to match baby's fairy theme baby bedding. Use these beautiful fabrics to sew personalized baby pillows, lampshades and other decorative items that display your favorite fairy pictures.
FAMOUS DISNEY FAIRIES
Perhaps the most popular fairies with children in modern times are Disney fairies. Tinkerbell and others have been made famous and given celebrity status through the animated movies that showcase these them larger than we could ever imagine their being in life.