Spare a copper?

The theme at Three Muses this week is Autumn and I was keen to create something, but I've been working long hours and not had much time for art.  Hence, I found myself starting this piece late this afternoon, and for some crazy reason I chose to make another video (which always takes me much longer).

Autumn Leaves

The piece is on 10" x 7" 140lb watercolour paper with quite a heavy texture.  The base layer is water soluble wax crayons in autumnal colours, followed by some molding paste through a leaf stencil at the base.  After the paste dried I painted it with a green / blue patina paint, followed by various metallic paints, copper, bronze, gold, iridescent bronze.

Then came a layer of leaf stamps all over the paper in green, yellow and brown, before I stamped deciduous tree branches all over the paper in both black and brown.

The tree is made with twisted wire and glued to the page with glossy accents.  Finally I cut the small leaves freehand, coloured them in 3 shades of distress ink and when dry, gave them all a touch of metallic paint to match the leaves in the foreground.  Finally I glued the individual leaves to the tree branches.

The video is loaded on YouTube but I found some parts out of sequence so have to load it again :(  If anyone would like me to update them once its loaded please let me know

Thanks to Three Muses, I've really enjoyed every minute of this!