Warm up piece for Life Book 2016 - My word for this year is Explore - although that might change as the year progresses, In fairness to the teachers and Life Book, I will not be sharing any of the techniques.
The photo is a bit rubbish but if I cropped it the colours darkened so much that it wasn't recognisable as the piece I'd created as it is this is already darker than the piece actually is as it has a very thin gesso wash over it so should be more muted.