Woods and Water

When I made the blue version, 'Water and Woods', I had cut out the green tree piece from some crinkled lokta, and decided that shade of green just didn't work with the blues. So I had to make a whole nother piece to use it. I wanted to do one with grays and browns, but the problem of finding the right grays was a real challenge! Everything I had was a cold, bluish gray, and I wanted warm ones. So for the first time, I used watercolors to change the paper colors. I used a wash of burnt sienna or vandyke brown on some of the granite paper and some of the Stardream metallics, and sprayed the back of my ivory Amate bark with a solution of sumi ink. I ended up very pleased with the results. Of course I played around with the design.

Kids! Test your detective skills! Can you spot at least six differences between this piece and the blue one?

14" x 24", lokta, amate bark, painted Stardream, "granite" paper (that's the textured light gray, second layer from the top)