The Escape - a mixed media painting

Description

This piece is a tree escaping from its frame, hence the title "The Escape". This painting does not just stop at the frame, it continues onto it.

Onto a second-hand wooden frame, I painted green and blue woodstain, then painted some branches onto the green, and a trunk onto the blue, using copper-coloured glass outliner. As part of the trunk, I left a knot in the wood bare, to make a feature of it. The piece that's now inside the frame was painted on cardboard, using acrylics and poster paint. I used the same mixture of acrylic and poster paint to paint inside the branches on the frame. Copper wire was then wrapped around the frame to hang this piece from. I feel the curves and colour of the copper compliment the glass outliner on the frame.

The frame itself measures 26cm x 21cm, although the hanging wire does of course make it taller than that, so the whole piece is about 26cm square. The fourth image shows the back of the piece, and the way that the wire's been wrapped around it. The wire is wrapped well enough to support the piece on its own, but I've also added some tape and paper to make it extra secure.

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Added on Oct 10, 2009