"Dreaming of a Blue Moon" This little piece started as a demo piece for a mixed media class I was teaching/leading (I think the students teach me as much as I do them). I started out using acrylic paint in blues and golds. I added stencils and texture paste to create the flowers in the background. I still wasn't sure what my subject was going to be, but that is becoming the norm for me! Pretty soon, I noticed some of the patterning on the piece and thought it looked like feathering and wings. I decided to take a chance and see if an owl would come to life in this piece. (This was the patterning I brought forward in her chest and wings) I decided to make her look very fluffy and sleepy. I accented her shape with a sharpie paint pen and made the branch out of painted vintage sheet music. The leaves were made with painted rice paper. She is peacefully sleeping, dreaming of the blue moon! This piece meas...