My intent with this piece was to play around with lotsa spindley lines to create a sinewy muscles and wierd wrinkles. But I discovered something that prevented that. I used Kilz, a primer for home use to prime my masonite boards instead of Gesso because it was already thin enough to brush on smoothly and didn't need sanding after 2 coats. It works fine, but it's pretty absorbant. I usually coat my boards with a flat color of acrylic paint so I'm not painting on white, but I didn't for this piece and the primer was too absorbant for me to work the paint the way I intended. The piece still came out cool, but in a different way. I learned something about my process though: if I want to do the slippery paint, sinewy effect, I need to coat the primed board with acrylic or clear medium first.
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