Conkers: Horse Chestnuts

Using seed pods from the back yard as a starting point for a new piece. Painfully spiked and in your face.

Naples yellow and studio red pigments mixed with rabbit skin glue creates a super-bright ground with wax pencil and burnt umber for texture.

adding an oil and egg emulsion underpainting white layer. I really don’t know where this is going, but trying to keep the energy of the red.