Forest Friends is an intuitive mixed media project created freely on a wooden frame, without a painted background. The natural wood surface became part of the design and set the organic tone in combination with a touch of steampunk for the entire piece.
Instead of starting with a detailed plan, I chose to work freely on a wooden frame, allowing the materials themselves to shape the final composition. I used chipboards, outcasts, drying nature elements, feathers, fabric texture and moss.
It was both challenging and refreshing.
This approach is one of the things I love most about mixed media: it allows mistakes to turn into design features and encourages experimentation.
Chipboards were used to build structure and depth, forming a loose, forest-like composition. Additional texture was added with an outcast from a Green Man Mould, which bring a special detail in form of an old, kind tree face and connect the layers visually.
For the forest animals, I used both embossing powder and acrylic paint.
used chipboards
Torn Notebook Frame - 2pce
Forest Friends - Fox
Forest Friends - Mouse
Deer
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Industrial Scrolls
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