School Auction - Class Art Project

This is a work in Progress at the moment. 

My daughter and I are working on the background for what will be an auction piece from her class for the LCMCS annual fundraising auction.  I bought an old frame and canvas from Salvation army on a Wednesday (everything is half price on Wednesdays)  It cost me $7.50.
I took the canvas apart from the frame and painted over the original canvas picture with dark blue and purple paint to make a night sky.  I painted a white circle at the top of the canvas for a moon.

It was then that a stroke of genius hit me as to how to make branches and tree trunks.  I took parcel paper, drew on the branches roughly the way I wanted them to look, cut them out and then screwed them up in to a ball.  When I flattened them back out I had trees with awesome textures to them.  Slathered in mod podge I stuck the tree trunks to the canvas.  Then my daughter set about making the first owl.  I had made a template and instructions for her to follow.  She did a fantastic job and hence we have our first owl.  All we need now is for the rest of the class to make an owl each and and a leaf with their name on it.  We should have a total of 32 owls and leaves when we are done.  The frame was spray painted satin black and looks really great.

Update 3/18/2014

The children started making and adding their owls yesterday.  Here it is so far.

Nine down.... 23 to go......

30 kids all together and I think it turned out great. Here's hoping it raises some money.

 Interesting collection of
 "I want mine to look like my friends"
"Can mine wear a hat"
"I want mine to be flying"
"what about a moustache"
"can I draw glasses on mine?"

I think they had a great time.