Week 11 & 12 - Painting A Forest Floor

This is another exercise from the book by Mary Todd Beam. We did this one over a two week period as it had a few steps. I used watercolour paper, watercolours and some acrylic paint. Some leaves were added first using adhesive shelf liner, then washes of watercolour paint to build up the layers of leaves, lifting off techniques to create sticks, laying down of plastic over the wet paint to create more leaves in the layers. After everything dried I pulled off the adhesive shelf liner leaves - unlike Li-Sa I had trouble making my leaves stick where Li-Sa's stuck too well. These leaves are suppose to be the top layer of the forest floor and have more detail in them although it doesn't show too well in the photo. I liked using the shelf liner to create the white which can be painted in after and can see myself exploring this technique further in other paintings.