Wood Panel Painting: "Fortuna"
Wood Panel Painting Fortuna Found frames often need custom size panels for painting if the frame is not a common size. For this found frame painting I cut a birch plywood panel and used the wood grain as an element of the painting. "Fortuna" is a sculpture in Venice by Bernardo Falconi that's atop the Dogana da Mar, the once customs house, now art museum, on a point directly across the entrance to the Grand Canal from the Piazza San Marco. This gull's eye view faces, not San Marco, but the San Giorgio Monastery. I thinned the acrylic paint on the sky and water to stain, rather than cover, the wood grain. This left the grain to suggest the cloud and water surface structure.