Embroidered Collage

I had imagined the painted the portion rather differently, more brilliant in color and even more abstracted, but this is what came out while I was creating and I think it fits, so I'll move on to the stitching next.

I collaged the fabric onto the gessoed canvas with liquid matte medium, put a base layer of raw sienna on uncovered area of the canvas, and a few bits of autumn forest collage image over the fabric.  Then started painting in more treeish shapes in various colors, working wet in wet as much as I could.  I tried to blur edges and pull some of the paint up over the fabric.  I hadn't been intending to add those last collage images at the bottom, which are over the painted trees, but I had them in my pile of materials and they added to the composition nicely.

See the beginnings of this piece.