Bonsai

This is my first gouache painting. I did it on a thin sheet of maple and gave it to my painting teacher as a trade for some paints. I wasn't able to tweak the colors very well in photoshop to make it look quite as rich as it does in person. I really wanted to paint a bonsai tree for some reason and I added in a little alien presence for my teacher (David Charles Rosales) because that seems to be a common theme among his work, which you can see here http://www.elpayaso.com/.