Art is hard

In art we just finished creating art inspired by Micheal Mew who is famous for doing mixed medium collages. We had to create leading lines and a focal point using water colors and clippings from various magazines. If that wasn't hard enough we also had to include one of five birds (mohua, riroriro, tieke, korimako/koparapara, pipiwharaurao). Three of the birds will be the new representatives of our three new learning buildings. Below is my piece.

Look at this screaming boy. Just. Wow 11/10 bird right here.
This is the pipiwharauroa by the way

My focal point is the lady in the middle (I couldn't remember the original artist) and my leading lines include the wooden roof on the bottom, the dark wooden walls on the left, and the Chanel label on the right. I guess you could sort of include the green surrounding her as leading lines or possibly framing. The bird I chose was the pipiwharaurao, also known as shining cuckoo, and is considered to be the messenger of spring. I don't know if I like it entirely cause I feel like it's missing something. Other than that I'm proud of how it came out. The one problem I had was I glued the magazine clippings down and then I painted it. This made the glue lose it's adhesive around the edges so I had to go back and glue the edges down again. I also didn't really know what I was doing with the background, I just kinda winged it and hoped it came out well (which it did. I think).  Below are some examples of Micheal Mew's work: