RBS 6 Nations Rugby

Saturday 22nd February 2014

Over the last few weeks the RBS 6 Nations Rugby Championships have started and today England played Ireland at Twickenham. I was a tad bored and decided I would paint my nails to show my support. I sketched a few ideas for this one and decided to include the England Rugby logo.

 

 

I decided against a basic white background on the nails as I can never get white to look nice. I thought a french manicure may be nice as the base on all the nails, but using silver. I then painted the England Rugby logo on the thumbs, filling up the nail with the image rather than getting the whole image in. I incorporated the silver in as the outlines as I thought it would work better than white. I am really happy with the final effect.

 

After doing the thumbs I thought the other nails looked too bare. I thought about adding red and green dots somewhere on each nail to link them to the image but wasn't too sure. After a bit of playing around I came up with the idea of making the rose logo out of dots. I am not sure how noticable these are as the thumbs are the main focus of the design but I do like it. The 'dot' rose may be an idea to work on for future designs.

 

 

Congratulations to England as they won todays game, 13 - 10.