48x60 inches, oil and acrylic on cradled board. Wired and ready to hang.

About:

Painted in the back of my dad’s large metal shop in Arkansas. I went to the local lumber yard and built this big 48x60 inch board at the shop. I wanted to take full advantage of the setting, where it didn’t matter if I spilled buckets of paint on the floor and splashed it across the walls. I wanted to paint like a true maniac and thats what I did here with this abstract painting. I laid the board down on the greasy ancient concrete shop floor, and went to town with huge brushes, dripping and slopping watered-down acrylic paint across broad areas. I’d get it nice and loaded with paint and then pick it up and let the paint run down as I moved the board, manipulating the stream of color trailing down and pooling on the floor. No drop cloth, no plan, no rules. Later I finished the more controlled phase of the painting in oils.

When I painted this my tree obsession had branched out into roots and bark. Although I wasn’t deliberately painting bark here that’s what it looks like to me now.

Someone once hung this horizontally and it suddenly transformed from bark into a sunset beach scene that was almost better than the vertical orientation . Maybe it should be up to the future owner to decide which way to hang this.