Happy New Year!!
Cutting it close to Christmas, I finished my Holiday Card for 2012. Below you can see my challenges....
Here I thought that the design was missing something, plus, I wasn't really liking the colors of the ornaments. I had just found my stash of gouache paints and didn't have anything more vibrant.
Here I play around with the design on the final project itself and really like what came from it.
The blue color was starting to bug me so I decided to warm the painting up by adding more earth tone colors. The tree was looking a bit flat and I wanted something to give it more of a lush body, making it feel more like Christmas.
My challenge at this point were the floor boards -- they were blending too much with the top half of the painting, so, I made it look more like wood by adding a grain texture throughout.
This is the final piece and I am quite happy with it! ;)
I'm hoping that I start my 2013 card a heck of a lot sooner!!
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