Nail Art Number Two: Island Sunsets

Closeups: lobster boat, islands, lighthouse. CLICK TO VIEW LARGER.

Voila! I was on vacation last week on an island in Maine, and painted my nails schmancy on a rainy day, inspired by spectacular past island sunsets.

Sorry for the dim lighting on the full set; I did closeups of a few so you can get the idea. I'm holding up my hands against a foggy day saying, "Here, these are the sunsets I am waiting for, but all I see is rain." As in my previous post, the fine detail is regular acrylic paint and a tiny paintbrush. What I did:

1. Paint entire nail orange.
2. Paint hot magenta on the top and bottom so it looks like an Easter egg.
3. Paint lighter pink splashes across the top for clouds.
4. Paint the bottom half with shiny pale blue, but make it so the brush is partially dry so it doesn't cover all the pink and orange so that you get some color reflecting in the ocean.
5. Paint the silhouettes with acrylic and a tiny brush and LOTS OF PATIENCE. All the skies have birds and all the oceans have lobster buoys. I did the fancy designs on my thumbs: a lobster boat and a lighthouse. The rest are just trees on islands and peninsulas.
6. Cover all with clear nail polish.

And of course between each step there is a long wait time to be sure everything is completely dry. It was a long rainy day. But every day on the island is a good day!

This is what's currently on my fingernails, but it's chipping and the lobster boat thumbnail has broken. What should I paint next?

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