Project # 17 - Whimsical Bird House

This project was inspired by a book that I like very much. It is called The Art of Personal Imagery, and it's by an artist called Corey Moortgat. I highly recommend it, there are a lot of beautiful pieces of artwork in it and I felt inspired to try Corey's mixed media painting style on this bird house.

I collaged some pieces of brightly coloured paper to the birdhouse after applying a coat of gesso. I was going to paint over the paper but found that I really liked the colours and didn't want to completely obscure them, so I did a little bit of painting and then used a charcoal pencil to bring out some of the details and to add some doodly elements (is "doodly" a word?) I think that all the bright colours are very cheerful, and I like to think that some pretty little bird would like to make this her spring house.