falling leaves

"There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember it is enough to be taken care of by my self."

I saw this quote on Pinterest and just loved it. After Ella's doctor's appointment last week, I just needed to make something. It's an 11X14 canvas covered with a sewing pattern. I hand-cut the leaves from my old french-english dictionary and then used water colors to paint them. At this point, I wasn't sure where I was going with piece. Then I thought about the falling leaves which led me to think about Willow trees, which have always had a peaceful feel to me. I painted the trunk with acrylics and used mod-podge to adhere everything. I outlined everything with black marker first, then went back and outlined again with a white paint pen. The whole process was the exact therapy I needed!