Wood

One day while walking into college i noticed branches that had fallen on the road and were flat because of cars that had driven over them. I thought this was interesting as it sort of represented the way that people take nature for granted and rarely take it into account. I collected quite a bit of it and dried it out for a couple of days. I did struggle for a while with ideas of what to do with all the wood. I had an idea of sticking all of it together and then varnishing the wood to create an image and after I had stuck all the wood together I realised that it wasnt very visually appealing to me. So i started working out different ideas and the one that i settled on was a painting on canvas where the wood represents a rotting city. I used black, ultramarine and white but then decided that it was too dark and didn't compliment the wood so i painted over it in brown, yellow,white and ultramarine. I then stuck the wood on in such a way that it looked like the viewer was looking down a street and i made the wood smaller as it went in towards the centre of the painting to add perspective.