Showing posts with label driftwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label driftwood. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Beach Find

I came across this on a freezing March day on a windy Chesapeake Bay beach. It seems to be from some kind of water craft--a pedal boat or something lightweight? not a boat as it doesn't seem substantial enough. I've found that pieces of boat make the best driftwood, although having spent years living on boats, it creeps me out to think of them sinking.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

What to Do with Driftwood



Surf's Up, encaustic and acrylic on driftwood, 19"x27", 2008

Paint on it, of course! After a trip to British Columbia where I loaded up on driftwood, I wanted to make a piece reminiscent of an old fence in a surfer's backyard.


Hook, 19"x4", 2008

More of the Canadian driftwood I found, along with a few other objects from various collectings-- fashioned into something more utilitarian--a hook. Just sayin'...