"New Beginnings" This painting is finally done! It's amazing how I literally obsessed over this one. I couldn't wait to come home and work on it. I was amazed at every layer and how it was almost painting itself. Event the colors are not typical of what I normally use. Both of the substrates (cradle boards) started out with a muted gray background with a bright orange stencil over the top. I began adding layers of paint and paper. Then I figured out that I needed to put a Mama bird and a little bird's nest into the composition. I used stencils and molding paste to give it a raised texture. Added more paper, paint, and glass bead gel. In the time I was working on these, I thought about how our lives so quickly change. I remembered my kids when they were babies and now they have babies of their own. It's pretty incredible, the twists and turns our lives take and how fast time real...