woodshop

1998
watercolor on strathmore cold press
15" x 11"

to be honest, i don't really remember that much of what i was thinking when i painted this. it was technically taxing and i remember the effort it took to make all that wood actually look like wood, but i can't remember why i wanted to paint it or even how i felt about it afterward. i do like this piece now, though. i feel that it was very successful, and i'm especially proud of the mallet in the bottom right corner. this painting is framed and used to hang in one of the guest bedrooms of my parents' old house and, at the time, my dad emphatically and superstitiously refused to hang it over the bed. but i guess i wouldn't hang it over a bed either, seeing as there's that screw thing pointing straight down at a potential sleeper.