Medium: Acrylic on wood
Description:
This piece started with a piece of MDF board which then was primed and sanded several times using an acrylic house paint primer. After that the piece was painted with traditional acrylics and then some wood was glued to the MDF board. A frame was then added and a small sculpted figure of a cowboy with his hat over his face made out of epoxy was glued to the frame.
The idea for this one initially came around after seeing a framed 3D box project that used LEDs and layering to create a forest that glowed. The plan was to have a small LED sit in the top right corner and shine down the "branches" on to the resting cowboy to create shadows like the sun would during the day. Problems arose when trying to glue the wood to the background as the wood did not wan to hold position and the glue began to mess with the paint. Other problems with the soldering tool that was going to be used to attach the aforementioned LED to a switch lead to more complications and ultimately led to major parts of the concept being dropped. I was fairly disappointed with this one and would like to try to revisit the idea in the future.
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