Collage - Bird of Paradise

Gwen Lafleur is an amazing artist, I love her style of work. I am big fan of her art. I have learnt a lot from her projects and with lockdown going on she is hosting many online classes. This gave me perfect opportunity to learn from her. I have enrolled to most of them and having fun while learning.

These classes have broadened my horizon and so many new techniques to learn .Since I dont have many products with me, I have chosen alternative solutions ( on normal day would have ordered stuff immediately). It is challenging and brings immense satisfaction when it turns out great.

The collage is of birds of paradise on brown background which is mounted on black card stock.

The background is made with burnt sienna, raw umber and burnt umber along with Distress paints vintage photo and walnut stain. Various stencils from stencilgirl were used to add interest in white.

The bird was created with collage papers in shades of orange and green. I also used scrapbook papers. I then used pitt pens to doodle on the bird to add interest and also used Fevicryl 3D outliners. The entire bird was then outlined with golden paint (Golden deep gold with gloss medium) from fineliner bottle.I punched and cut different flowers and stuck it around to add the bird.

Hope you liked it.

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