This is a retired 1999 set that I was intrigued by when I saw it on Ebay. I wanted to try putting it into a scene. I sketched the trees with an artist pen and used watercolor minis fern stamp for the leaves and to fill in the grassy area. I also sketched grassy patches with the pens and sponged the areas under the trees to make the whole thing look like it is in the distance. I hope I accomplished that. I finished painting everything and then decided to age it up a bit by roughing the edges by scrapping over my deckle scissors and putting Close to Cocoa direct to paper to go on the edges and directly on lots of the painted edge area.
Date: Saturday, April 15, 2006 GMT Views: 1879
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Mon, Jul 10, 2006 @ 6:38 PM
My husband collects toy tractors, and grew up on a farm...now I have to connect to ebay.....got to find one....and learn how to draw tree....(there will be my down fall)..thanks for sharing your wonderful talent...enjoy so much.....