Working on Wood

This small piece of wood (16.5x10cm) was a found object which I thoought would come in useful for this project. I have had it for quite some time but never been 100% sure about what I should do with it. A fellow student suggested it would be ideal for a painting and that was always my intention. Looking back through my sketchbook work, it seemed to me that a 'Mitzie Green-style' painting would suit the material best.

Working again in a similar style to her, and using similar techniques, I planned to create a painting from one of my own photographs. Two large pieces of newspaper were used to cover the board for working back on top of. The majority of my paintings in this project have been watercolours so I went back to using acrylics for this particular piece as this will work better with the combination of materials seen above.

This piece developed in the same way as previous paintings based on Green's work in my sketchbook. The acrylic paint was watered down before being applied to the wood, so that the newspaper remains visible, creating an interesting look to the piece as a whole. I rather enjoyed painting on wood and think the results were quite successful. I think more time could have been spent on the painting for it to look it's best but this was more of experimentation with the combined materials to see how they worked together. My next step is to produce a similar painting on a larger scale (A3 size) to see if that too, will be as, if not more, successful.