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So I’ve got this huge space between the two windows in my bedroom over my bed. I’d been looking for a piece of art to go there, but in the end decided to do something myself.

At first I intended to do something Pollock-esque, but just couldn’t get it going. As I told Dave in IM this evening… There’s a whole lot more to that style than just throwing some paint on a canvas. In the end, I just relied on the texture to carry the work. There are some faint hints of of red and blue (that aren’t showing up in the picture).

I think I’ll call it “Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining.”

If you can’t tell, the canvas is actually a louon interior door (24″ x 80″). I’m going to get some iron-on veneer edging to clean up the outside edge and then I’ll put a couple of coats of polyurethane on the wood to make the mock frame really pop.

It’s far from what I was shooting for in the beginning, but I’m really pleased with how the finished piece looks. It’s been a very long time since I’ve done anything like this… probably twelve years, so I feel like it’s a good first step back into that world. It was incredibly enjoyable and now that I have the space to do this sort of thing again, I think I’ll be doing more and more.