a relief

While the parts for the monster that eats things with its rollers sit waiting for me to get back to them, I started another project.

I saw some drawings for paintings Pernilla's studio, landscapes quickly rendered in pen, just quick sketches; and wanted to make some more representational work. I started this relief in oil clay. It is stuck on an old melamine drafting tabletop, so it is fairly large by my standards. The hope at the moment is to have an Iowa landscape with cornfields and grain elevators in the distance. In the foreground with a shift in perspective will be the fire monster burning a thistle, in a cornfield. I am trying to get two pictures in one, to give the idea of microcosm (small world) and larger context for that small world.

It is shaping up to look like some wood cut prints I did about 7 years ago.