Village

They say it takes a village so I made one! The background is collaged with scrap wallpaper and the inside of envelopes from bills. It is then painted over with various acrylic paints. The houses were also made from wallpaper, envelope paper and wrapping paper. The black outline is from a scribbles bottle. It measures 15.5 x 20. The substrate paper is red rosin paper which has been gessoed on both sides. I learned to do this from a tutorial at Caatje's blog : http://caatjesartsystuff.blogspot.com/2011/03/little-houses-tutorial.html