• Wedding Lei original mixed-media artwork from Christie Marie Elder’s Silver Lining Series, featuring luminous plumeria against a deep blue watercolor background with metallic silver linework.
  • Wedding Lei shown in its included custom professional frame with rich blue silk liner and substantial dark wood molding.
  • Close-up of Wedding Lei showing metallic silver linework, transparent watercolor, dark inner liner, and rich blue silk framing detail.
  • Close-up detail of Wedding Lei showing luminous yellow and white plumeria outlined in metallic silver against deep blue watercolor.
  • Detail of Wedding Lei showing Christie Marie Elder’s signature, silver linework, and layered transparent watercolor.
  • Side detail of Wedding Lei showing the substantial depth and handcrafted presentation of its custom dark wood frame and blue silk liner.
  • Wedding Lei displayed in an elegant tropical-luxe interior staging, illustrating the framed artwork’s scale and presence in a refined Hawai‘i-inspired home.
  • Wedding Lei shown in a clean contemporary interior staging with tropical greenery, illustrating the scale of the framed original.
  • Wedding Lei photographed in its actual custom frame, showing the depth of the dark wood molding and blue silk liner from an angle.
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Wedding Lei - Silver Lining Series - Mixed Media

Wedding Lei - Silver Lining Series - Mixed Media

$4,200.00 USD
$4,200.00 USD
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Wedding Lei

Silver Lining Series
Mixed Media
7" × 14"
2017
$4,200 — professionally framed

Tropical blossoms gather against a deep blue background in Wedding Lei, an intimate original from my Silver Lining Series inspired by the beauty, fragrance, and emotion of lei shared in celebration.

Origin & Inspiration

At weddings in Hawai‘i, lei are often given by family and loved ones as expressions of affection, celebration, and aloha. As each person places another lei around the bride, the flowers can begin to stack so high that they nearly hide her dress.

There is something wonderful about being surrounded by that much love and beauty at once—but just as memorable is the fragrance.

The mingled scents of maile, pikake, plumeria, and other tropical flowers can create an atmosphere that is almost impossible to describe: lush, romantic, celebratory, and unmistakably Hawai‘i.

Wedding Lei was inspired by that feeling of being surrounded by flowers, family, beauty, and love. The blossoms overlap and gather together much like lei themselves, glowing against the rich blue background.

For me, the painting honors one of those rare moments when nature, fragrance, tradition, celebration, and affection all seem to come together at once.

About the Silver Lining Series

Wedding Lei is an original mixed-media work created with traditional transparent watercolor and metallic silver ink.

The watercolor creates the soft, luminous shifts of color throughout the flowers, while the metallic silver linework introduces the graphic structure characteristic of my Silver Lining work.

Unlike some works in the series, Wedding Lei contains no gemstone pigments. Its luminosity comes entirely from transparent watercolor, the depth of the dark background, and the way the metallic silver responds to changing light.

The technique brings together two chapters of my artistic life—traditional watercolor painting and tattoo-influenced linework—into one visual language.

No reproduction can fully capture the way the metallic silver changes as the original is viewed from different angles and under different light.

The name Silver Lining Art has always meant more to me than the silver linework itself. I’ve long loved the philosophy of looking for the silver lining—finding something meaningful, beautiful, or useful even when things don’t go as planned. In a way, that is exactly how this series began: an unexpected problem with watercolor paper led me to experiment, adapt, and create an entirely new visual language.

Framing & Presentation

Wedding Lei is professionally custom framed with a rich blue silk liner and substantial dark wood molding.

The generous framing around this intimate 7" × 14" original was an intentional choice. The blue silk extends the deep color of the painting beyond the artwork itself, while the substantial outer frame gives the smaller piece an unexpected sense of presence.

The finished presentation measures 21.5" × 14.25" × 1.5", transforming the original into a striking, complete work ready to hang.

The frame is included with the artwork.

Artwork Details

Title: Wedding Lei
Series: Silver Lining Series
Original Artwork: Mixed Media
Materials: Transparent watercolor and metallic silver ink
Artwork Size: 7" × 14"
Framed Size: 21.5" × 14.25" × 1.5"
Year: 2017
Price: $4,200
Framing: Professionally custom framed with blue silk liner; frame included

Artist Signature & Documentation

Signature: Signed by Christie Marie Elder on the front.

Each original artwork includes a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) together with an artist biography for provenance and collector records.


Copyright

© Christie Marie Elder. All rights reserved.

Purchase of the original artwork transfers ownership of the physical artwork only. Copyright and reproduction rights remain with the artist and do not transfer with the sale.


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