Another practice exercise with watercolor techniques.  I first de-pixelated the photo in Topaz Studio with a series of layers I use to give a general painterly feel but keep the details of the image.

I put the image on a few layers of textured background of old paper in different blend modes and added the different watercolor brush strokes over the top.  I then added the tree and leave embellishments along with the cut paper.

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