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Painting x Wood - Collage
- sampearson257
- May 22, 2024
- 2 min read
I’ve always wanted to use wood in my artworks, specifically plywood. I can best describe using it as a collage material, but the depth of material turns it into a sculptural piece. Using it in my works breaths life into the landscape I’m creating, allowing me to play with perspective, layering, and depth.
Using the laser cut machine, I made some illustrator files, and designed these abstract pieces again to reflect shapes in the landscape.
The piece below plays with mirroring, light, and gradients to suggest ideas of sun coming through the trees, and that nature is symmetrical in so many ways (Such as leafs, trees and their roots). The yellow represent the sunlight, and the two tones of green suggesting the light from the sky, getting darker as it attempts to beam through the lush growth, onto the earth’s surface.
This artist visually inspired me when making these pieces.
I’ve also made this piece using hardwood plywood, plywood sheets, paint, graphite, coloured paper, and oil pastel.
This is one of my favourite pieces I’ve made! I like how the elements all sit together, and the plywood pieces create a depth, and give the impression of a space within the artwork. I also love the gradient on the suggested mountain. This brings in the digital aesthetic that I’ve been exploring, and creates an interesting juxtaposition between hand-drawn and suggestive, computer-generated imagery.
I also enjoy the colour combinations and their interpretive design. The warm oranges are supposedly a canyon, paired against large, foreground rocks. But others have said they look like caves, or roads.
There is oil pastel detail in the green areas, suggesting deep, lush nature.
I’ll keep working with these shaded elements, as to see their potential, and what else they might suggest within nature and the landscape.
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