Showing posts with label birch bark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birch bark. Show all posts

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Lord of the Tall Timber


Acrylic on birch bark
Bark is 14" x 21"
$900
SOLD!
This is a new format I have been perfecting over the last five years.  The birch bark paintings are very time consuming, but I am happy with the results. To prepare the bark ,I visualize where the image will fit in between all of the irregularities.  Then I  do shaving with a razor blade and sanding.  This is followed with up to twelve coats of primer.  Each coat gets sanded and polished before I go on to the next one.  As far as I know I am the only artist in the country doing gallery quality paintings on birch bark. I think that it may because no on else is crazy enough to attempt it!