Sustained Investigation #6

For this project, I wanted to explore the relationship with my father and his musical career and how that impacted me by illustrating a happy memory of us playing together and putting it on one of the guitars.

For materials I used wood stain to create a blend to show the lighting but also to create lilies, I chose stain because not only was it wood but it would not come out super shiny nor have texture like acrylic paint would. I used wood-burning tools and the most pointed burner attachment to create my detailed lines of the two figures.   I did this all on a piece of wood that was once a wooden canvas, which I took apart with a box knife.

I think that some unique techniques for me that I sued were wood staining experimenting with contrast of the same color and creating fine lines with a material that bleeds quite easily. I did a lot of experimentation on an extra board as can be shown in the three images above, I did this to ensure I could create those lines and blend before I truly started painting because, unlike acrylic stain, it cannot be painted over.  The biggest concern I have with this piece is that some of the pencil lines are still showing, I didn't try super hard to get them out at first because I needed them as a guide but after staining it seemed near impossible to get them out. I am considering either trying against and even sanding down the pencil marks or putting a darker wash stain over the board to blur the lines.