The Monument...oil on panel, and photo on rice paper, 30 x 30 inches....what I did here was to take a photo from one of my folders of images, in this case of the iconic Provincetown Monument and after working on it in Photoshop, cropping and manipulating it, I sized it to fit the empty picture frame I had painted on the wall of the painting and printed the jpg on to hand made Nepalese rice paper.  Actually the paper is from a different plant whose name escapes me right now but it is just like rice paper.  Then I took this "print" and mounted it to the panel inside the edges of the frame.  To maximize the effect, I then painted the frame in to the edge of the paper.  Because the paper is so thin and a semi-transparent the effect worked very nicely.  On top of the rice paper print, I then painted in oil with transparent paint, and worked the image into the background to make it recess somewhat.  The effect was topped off by painting the subtle reflections in the glass.  I have never tried this "mixed media" effect before and found myself quite taken with both the process and effect.  I hope to revisit this approach in future works.