Creation and Destruction

I painted a few wreaths...

This was my first one, which has a loose feel to it, but doesn't look like it would hang well.

After painting them, I decided to add shadows, thereby ruining each of them. Luckily, I had scans and one of them became a Christmas card.

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I liked our freeform centerpiece and tried several times to paint it.  

The cedar seemed always to look too much like feathers...

Then, I made one that I almost liked. I made a scan, overworked the page and ended up gluing paper over the damage. Luckily, I had the scan.

This one, I haven't destroyed yet...

...except for eating the muffin.

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I'm not sure whether or not I liked this better before I added the apple tree branches on the right,  but it doesn't matter, because this is what stays. I didn't make a scan.