Mixed Media Monday Challenge

Here is my entry for the theme "Monochromatic Colors".
I was flipping through a stack of old magazines my hubby was nagging me to "deal with". That's not the same as "get rid of". Although i had to agree, the pile was quite stale. I found the image of the honeycomb in a National Geographic, which was all about issues facing the ecological balance in the world. Well, the color spectrum: from golden yellow to deep amber, was PERFECT for this challenge! (good thing i read the "PSSST" hint on this week's Mixed Media Challenge, so i had my eyes open for colorful ideas.

I started with a 5" by 7" stretched canvas. My goal at the end of the year is to create a gallery in my house for all the weekly challenges - so i think working on stretched canvas will be easier to display on simple shelves or nails, than paper based artwork. That's my plan anyway....
I covered the canvas with some amber coloured paper - actually taken from a bouquet of flowers. It was sort of "interface-y" if you sew and know what that means. i cut out the honeycombs (by the way - one of my favorite cereals as a child)and glued them to the left side with glue stick. I used the text from the article on the right. Then i literally just grabbed whatever golden amber honey hued items i had in easy reach of my work surface. Sunflower stickers, foam letters, and I used some oil pastels over everything to round out the hues and seal the piece.
Oh, and then added two yellow tin chickens. I thought the honeycombs where reminiscent of chicken wire. Get it? groan....i know, I know, it is a creative leap.