The Egg of the Phoenix for MMM #46

Hello lovely visitors, today I am sharing a project that took me right of my comfort zone 😉

I made it as a mid month project for the Mixed Media Monthly challenge blog where our sponsor this month is Marabu. They very generously sent each member of our team a stencil, Acrylic Art Spray, an Art Crayon, and Acryl Mousse. Unfortunately mine did not arrive for the start of the month, so that is why I am only posting my project now.
On the graphic this month you can see our theme:

My stencil or rather mask was the quirky bird, and my colours were kind of dark red and pink, which I mixed with some gold highlights.

I have acouple of step out photos:

I spread the mousse over my panel with a pallette knife, mixing it with some gesso. I added some strips of old book paper and a torn bit of rice paper.

More colour added, trying to blend the collage elements into the background.

And here the finished piece. I placed the mask on the background and then blended around with the art stick and spray, also using part of the mask to add the additional flowers. While working on the background, I completely lost my bookpaper strips, so I decided to add a paper crown which I just hand drew around the head of the bird on some bookpaper, cut out and then adhered to the bird on my panel.

I computer generated the quote and added some gold acrylic paint still with my finger.

A few doodles and white paintsplatters, plus a little shadowing with a Stabilo All pencil finished it all off.

I guess many of you have been to the challenge blog already, but if you have not, do check it out, and if you would like to play along don't forget to add our graphic to your post so that you can be in with a chance to win.

Thanks for your visit like always and have a creative week!

xxxxx