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<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nThis was a situation where I overworked the piece beyond repair – it was so thick and lumpy that you could barely see the grains of the wood panel anymore. The spaces between the colour blocks were gone. I was clinging to a few things I had collaged on early and wanted to salvage (this rarely works!). And no, “put a bird on it” doesn’t always work (ha ha, Portlandia fans).<\/p>\nI liked the two images and how the composition moved along from the green in one photo to the green in the other. I like that I took these photos while hiking with the baby on one of my favourite trails nearby. So while this wasn’t working out, I decided to just finish it anyway and celebrate the sense of how large the cedar trees are here on the west coast. I found a neat image in my Grandma Jean’s 1910 school book of a big cedar tree in Stanley Park, so I used that at the base of the tree. I’m not sure what I’ll do with this painting–laundry room??–but here it is.<\/p>\n
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