"The Road Less Traveled" The finished piece! I've been wanting to create an elephant in mixed media for quite a while. I have been admiring Tracy Verdugo's work and I love the elephants that she creates, so that was the inspiration for this piece. I am actually fortunate enough to be attending one of her workshops in only 7 more days! I am beyond excited and cannot wait! This is how it started. I gessoed a piece of 20 X 20 cradle board. Then I added texture with molding paste and stencils. I also added some molding paste to the elephant's trunk and head. I had some textured paper that I love and decided to add some of that to her ears. I then gessoed over the molding paste and the paper on her ears. Here you can see I started adding some paint. I used Golden's Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold and Burnt Orange. I'm all about the Turquoise lately, so I threw that in too. Now for the scary part...starting on the el