The wood burning has been very tedious and frustrating. It's difficult to get a full range of value and have all of the marks flow together cohesively. I've learned that it takes a lot of time and practice. Patience has been key with this part of the piece. The carving was difficult in some areas because the details were so small and the tools are only a certain size. Overall, I like the way the carvings have turned out. Watercolor on wood is possibly one of my new favorite things. It was so much fun to explore because the wood absorbs the color so much differently than paper. The contrast and the strokes where made so unpredictable by the surface of the wood, but that kind of randomness was what I was going for. I practiced all 3 of these methods and ideas on scrap pieces of wood before hand, which helped and really payed off in the end.
Here are some photos of those:
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