Tuesday's Play Day!

The theme for this week's artistic play day was "stars".

I wish I could have snapped a picture that captured the true colors of this project.

When you look at the picture above and the one below, think rich purple and bronzy reds, with gorgeous greens and topaz!



Ahhh well, this piece was done on a piece of 4 x 4 inch studio wrapped canvas. I painted the canvas with a mixture of crimsom and bronze acrylic, followed by a wash of purple Lumiere paint.

I then painted the watercolor background and the christmas tree on watercolor paper. The tree has been accented with gel medium mixed with Lumiere paint.

Thanks to my trusty ole heat gun, I was able to speed the drying process....

I used gel medium to attach the bone star to the top of my tree and proceeded to glue the hand torn tree onto a piece of gorgeous, royal, deep purple card stock.

The entire tree ensemble, was then collaged onto the canvas.

My final addition was the small antiqued copper tag that reads "Believe", which I placed underneath the watercolor tree.

It's a sweet little piece!

If only the pictures did my little "Tree Au Naturale" justice!