a new Mixed Media Painting from start to finish!

TITLE: A Sense Of Place. Prints available in my etsy shop.
Email me if you're interested in the original. juliette (at) juliettecrane(dot) com

this girl definitely went through a journey to get here. 

i kept track of her progress in photos as well as wrote her story on the back of the painting. and the thing that stood out the most, was that so often she was being pulled in two different directions. 

she started with red hair and lots of craziness in the background.

i knew i didn't like her, but i wasn't sure just where she should so next. so i made a bold move and gave her that rooster head. and that was the beginning of her character coming out.

i knew i liked that spot up in the left corner, but her face didn't match her new frock of head feathers. 

after a bit of redoing her features, i finally found her look and dark hair.

with a little definition, i was loving her face. normally, that is the hardest part for me to bring out of the canvas, but with this girl, her features fell right into place.

i added some papers for the feathers in her hair...origami paper, book pages, and sheet music.

i've also been really inspired by and experimenting with lots of color and pattern. so her background was the thing that changed...over and over again.

until finally, she found her scene. 

TITLE: A Sense Of Place. Prints available in my etsy shop.
Email me if you're interested in the original. juliette (at) juliettecrane(dot) com

and everything suddenly came together. i knew she'd found A SENSE OF PLACE.

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