I thought of making a cardinal because I have been seeing a lot of them in my backyard lately. Another reason why I chose to make a cardinal is because my dad has always been a big St. Louis Cardinals fan. For the background, I used acrylic paint on wood mixed with some paper collaged on top. The Cardinal and tree were collaged from different types of paper. For the border of this piece, I used several woodcarving tools to roughen up the edge in order to make the subject matter and background better connect to each other.
