I was inspired by this passage of scripture that I was in the middle of studying. I painted a canvas in my favorite shades of aqua and white.  Slapped the paint on randomly, quickly.  Then I ripped pages out of a mid-nineteenth century bible that is falling apart and adhered them to the canvas with mod-podge.  I distressed-inked all four edges of the canvas.  I had two pheasant feathers I attached with rusty wire, added some paper flowers and birds and a couple of 3-d flowers. Then I printed out this scripture of Matthew, cut it up, distressed it and applied it to the canvas-and after that I applied mod-podge to the whole thing.  I usually don’t do that-the mod podge layer on top, but I didn’t feel like letting loose of the paint brush quite yet!  I LOVE this piece of aqua, whites, ivory, yellow and brown and the feathers are just the natural element this canvas needed.

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