Birch Bark Buck Mixed Media with Roberta Laliberte

Hello everyone and happy holidays! I don't know if you got your holiday artsy fix yet but I sure got mine with this project! I had originally pictured some beautiful birch bark Christmas trees but then I saw a beautiful painting of a stag and I could just picture a birch bark stag.

I glued layers of birch bark (which I separated into thin layers) using gel medium.

Once that dried I drew the stag outline and eye onto the dried birch bark background.

I used thick white acrylic paint to fill in the background and used the pencil to scribble lines into the wet paint around the edges.

I let that dry and then used torn pieces of painted paper to collage on the poinsettia flower and greens. You could also add a greeting but I chose not to.

I sure hope you enjoyed my project, and I wish you the merriest of holidays with your loved ones.  ~ Roberta

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