"Beyond Words" The photo above shows the finished piece, titled "Beyond Words". The photos below show how it started out and the progression of this piece. I got a wild hair and decided I needed to move out of my comfort zone and use some different colors. To tell you the truth, I almost scrapped the whole painting. It was REALLY out of my comfort zone! I painted with grays, burgundy, and threw in a little Van Dyke brown for good measure. I added tissue paper, collage papers, and modeling paste with a stencil. I began to tone it down and soften it up by adding white. I like how the other colors and patterns still show through. There are alot of layers going on here! At this point, I still don't know what is happening with this piece and I'm still not real happy with it, but I'm forging on. I used a wing stencil with some modeling paste over the top of these layers. I painted the wings iridescen...