29 Faces and IA Weekly Challenge

Texture and 29 Faces

Day 25

This is my favorite imp, that rascal Puck.

I created this for the Inspiration Avenue challenge, Texture,

but since I've spent some time on his face,

I'm posting it for 29 Faces also :-)

Puck is strolling through the forest with a friend and looking for mischief.
 He may have found it in the floating fairy lights.
Care to play catch, Mr. Fox?

It's colored pencil and acrylic paint with bits of collage paper,

magazine pages, tissue paper, ribbon, and corrugated cardboard.

Did I forget anything? Oh, book pages. And who knows what else,

since I was pasting the kitchen sink on there to create some texture.

I've been visiting blogs and reading how texture has been difficult

to show in a scanned or photographed image.

Everyone is so right ~ it's tricky . . . my photos were showing

bumps and highlights where I didn't want them and

skipping right over the texture that I wanted to show up. Bleh.

I started this canvas a long time ago and thought it would be a good

candidate for the texture challenge. It doesn't resemble what I 

started with at all. You can see the original post here, along with

the insightful "critique" from my office assistant :)

No wonder it took me so long to complete it.

 Notice: where I was once going to put a cat,
there is now a fox. Sorry, Oliver.

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I hope you are enjoying the weekend...

Mother Nature has decided we needed a bit more snow.

What can I do but say 

“Thank you, but I hope we won't be needing any more after this.”