Baroque Live Oak I

"I can't overestimate the impact growing up around the age-old live oaks that are part of my childhood. The leaves of the live oak are tough like shells and have a dark green cinnabar shade with a caramel colored underside that almost looks like suede. Their majestic hundreds of years old limbs speak to me like an elder, so this is my symbolic gesture is to give them classic French Baroque ornaments as they lord over my Gulf Coast home." 

10" x 10" x 1 1/2"
Modern decoupage - hand-cut and painted paper on gilded canvas.