Faces of the Orient

This is a small canvas I have made for the Geishas Challenge at Gingersnap Creations.  

I started by painting the canvas with gesso (as it started life as a picture of a camper van!).  I used gel medium to apply oriental paper to the background and once this was dry, I used acrylic paint in layers to build up the colours to match my main photograph.

I printed the monochrome geisha image onto a transparency and painted the other image with Croco basecoat to seal it.   The temple was made using a stamped image onto Ten Second Studio metal.  I used other oriental stamps and completed the canvas with some K&Co lanterns.

(Images courtesy of http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/vie4jap.html)