For the past couple of months, I have been working on two forest scenes:


I’m very pleased with the way they turned out. So much so that I am going to give them a permanent home in the built-in cabinets in my living room.
The hardest part was figuring out how to do the forest floor. I ended up crushing pine needles into little pieces, spreading ModPodge unto a piece of painted foam and pressing the needles into it, and then covering the needles with a spray-on adhesive. The needles can still break off, of course, but they don’t fall off.