In 2022 I burned a dragon on a box the dragon was holding a sphere and I thought I would make it look like it was holding the world.
Except when I took a picture of it, well to me it looked like the head of a bear and my BFF thought it looked like a wolf.
In an attempt to make it look like the world I coloured it blue and green. That did not work, just made the creature, whichever you saw look mouldy.
A re think was required, and whilst I did that it went up into the loft as I had a stand or perhaps mount thought going on in my head.
That got paused, I think I wanted to do some extreme sanding and then could not be quite bothered.
So, whilst I was in the loft over Christmas and working on something else up there (expect that something to get a post of its own later when it hopefully gets to its intended placement) I came across the box whilst looking for a pencil.
Down from the loft it came. I am not sure what I intended to do with it. It sat, and I looked at it and it sat.
Then I thought I would just go over the sphere with a white marker pen. A few times, until the blue and green went away. I did, it sort of did and I wondered "would it look better if the background was all dark". Getting out the pyrography stuff takes a bit of time, and preparation and organising ventilation, its winter and cold. There just happened to be a black marker pen in arms reach.
"just to get an feel of how it would look" I tell myself.
"Hmm not bad" was quickly followed by "people sometimes colour the pyrography perhaps?"
The metallic watercolour paints also happened to be within arms reach and one thing leading to another..
...painted dragon, it even has metallic blue over the black, just to see how it looked, background.
The question of if it is progress or not, I do wonder what was the point of doing the woodburn in the first place if I was just going to paint it?
It is not even finished. The sides need something doing to them, and the inside of course and that mount/stand whatever may need a rethink.
At least I have a new Forestella Song to add to the musical background of my ongoing contemplation.
I wonder if perhaps the title of the previous song might be something the box is singing as it waits to be finished.
