Watercolor on wood

I painted these with watercolor on wood (I coat the wood with clear gesso to prevent it from absorbing the paint). These paintings are all inspired by my love of nature and my love for myth and story. I try to present things from nature like trees or fungus as dramatic and expressive characters, instead of background scenery.

Watercolor on wood. It just sounds cool. However, if you don’t know what you’re doing, it will end up a disaster. I’m assuming you’ve already painted watercolor on watercolo…

For this piece and all of my artwork in general I create to exemplify the beauty of nature and serve as a reminder of how awesome it is to spend time in nature. I am a huge proponent for hiking and just getting out on trails, getting out into nature. I think that it is very important to take time for revitalizing and connecting with the outside world and I make my artwork to be an inspiration to do that.

I've been using acrylic paints on wood pallets for awhile now and while I love farmhouse pallet signs I wanted to try something different. Something with more c…

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The same idea, applied to tree bark...

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I tried using watercolor on various regular papers like printer paper, cardstock, and kraft paper and am sharing everything I learned.