This is a piece I made with inspiration from Shawn Petite. I love her style and her quotes that she uses on her work. I also totally appreciate the free tutorials that she gives on her website. So many artists are so generous with their time and talents!
Anyway, I found a board at the local Restore for $0.50 that I thought would work for my first venture into working on a hard surface. I gessoed the surface and then did a collage of map pieces, napkins, text pages and tissue paper. I stenciled a few paint colors onto the surface and decopauged the butterflies and the quote. I used charcoal pencil to do the shading around the butterflies. The final piece is about 8x8 in.
All in all, I was pretty happy with how it turned out and I will definitely try this again. As a matter of fact, I have one in process now.
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