Back in 2011 I was invited to go and paint a mural at a festival called Out of the Ordinary…
With the festival being held out in the middle of a field there weren’t so many walls around to paint on so the organisers suggested I paint something on a large piece of wood so that the painting could moved around and displayed at the event...
Turning Surplus Materials and Paint into Art...
Unfortunately I didn’t get any photos of the original pieces but I did use the idea to start making more when I got back home to my workshop and this is how they turned out:
There was something very satisfying about painting on wood as well which I enjoyed - something about the way the paint gets soaked up by the wood that you don’t quite get if you’re painting on a wall or on a canvas:
Miniature Murals on a Bit of Wood...
It was also really nice to be able to apply the same process I would use to paint a mural (below) but to be able to do it on a small, portable scale:
What was also nice is I could use the colour schemes of some of the existing murals, paint them on a bit of wood and then it’s almost like taking a brick out of the mural wall so to speak, that I could then put on a shelf or surface somewhere!
More "Bits of Wood" Coming Soon...
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Michael