Lilies and Aquatic Predators

A couple of weeks ago I got some balsa wood. Balsa is a very light, soft wood, very easy to work with unless you want something with more weight, or if you want to work against the grain (which makes balsa wood splinter). I cut off some rectangles and squares and sealed some of them. Today I started painting them using acrylic paints and various concentrations of glaze medium for different effects. I mostly used shades of turquoise.

One of them I didn’t seal and carved the wood against the grain (the tree square, in the corner):

WiPs (photo taken on my cat’s favourite chair, as you can probably tell):

WiP shot of an aquatic piece – ocean and what might be a large fish, or perhaps a squid:

And here it is, finished:

Here is the other piece I finished, which reminds me of a lily pond:

I really like these two, and the aquatic one in particular. I might work on more of these using wood shavings!