Call of the Wild...

Ok, I think it's done... Originally I hadn't planned on doing such a detailed background, but wondered about what kind of a background I would be doing and that got me thinking and of course I couldn't think of a thing so I asked my lovely daughter for ideas and she suggested the cliff path with trees and a river in the distance. So I looked online for photos of Misty mountain paths and I found one of a cool man made path in the mountains in China and adapted that with her idea and Voila! This is what I came up with.

Inspired by the wonderful art of Please check out her gallery.

So this one is dedicated to both my lovely daughter and my friend Thanks to both of you!

I started to color this with colored pencils but it wasn't showing up as clearly as I wanted it to on the dark paper, so I ended up adding in some Acrylic paints. I wasn't sure if that would work on the Cardstock paper, but it seems to be fine since I was sort of painting over the colored pencils in most places where I was trying to brighten it up. I honestly thought when I started to paint that I was going to ruin the whole thing. I was happily surprised when it worked.

Thanks for your faves and comments, they are, as always, greatly appreciated!