I always figure you can't go wrong with a bird, and it proved to be true yet again with this little painting/collage.
The collage part is very simple - just tiling the surface with pieces of color-coordinated images then adding a piece of an old book page that I punched along one side with a Fiskars edge punch then ripped the rest.
The branch, leaves, and berries are cut from pieces of magazine pages, but I painted the bird with acrylics.
But here's the fun part! I noticed that one of the leaves somehow had a little raggedy-edge hole and the white of the book page was showing through. I didn't like that at all! But what to do? I decided to get out my X-acto knife and try to scratch veins in the leaves and, guess what? It worked? I think it adds a lot of character to the piece and it all came about through a happy accident.
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