What Was "TEN"?

Since this is a blog about "how art is made", I feel responsible in showing the source of "TEN". I started with this picture I took this summer of my two buddies from Fresno.

I traced their bodies and then layed it over the top of this image of trees I photographed last year during this time of year.

Then I took cut outs of the following shots from the bird room at HSU.

and

After flattening the all of the layers, I ran them through different filters. Then dumped various colors around the image. I had to stop because I was starting to loose the image. And I was having too much fun :).