Mixed Media Wall Art: Embroidered Bird Amate painting but the scarlet macaw brings

but the scarlet macaw brings out something special in him

impossibly delicate brushstrokes that highlight every segment of the insect’s form

It is a visual prayer for harmony between the forces that sustain life

To carve a mushroom in Oaxaca is to invoke a creature that lives between the everyday and the dreamlike

Mixed Media Wall Art: Embroidered Bird Amate painting but the scarlet macaw bringsThis beautiful mixed media wall art features a colorful hand embroidered bird. The handcrafted bark paper is made in Puebla, Mexico, using traditional pre Hispanic methods of papermaking. In the center of the piece is a square cotton cloth hand embroidered with a bright butterfly. The embroidery is handmade in Tenango, Puebla, and is centered on the moist paper. The natural, bark colored perforations are strands of paper woven while the paper is still