Woody 206 Acrylic Print

acrylic prints wood spirit rustic weathered fantasy faces office framed digital symmetry eyes nature animals imagination anthropomorphic

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Anthropomorphic wood art characters created from mirrored wood. I started making these out of figured wood while working at cabinet shops as a finisher. I would band saw the wood and book match the cut boards, gluing them back together to create faces I saw in the grain of the wood. I don't like naming my Woodies as it is more fun to see what others see in the images. Pareidolia can cause people to interpret random images, or patterns of light and shadow, as faces. I decided to refine the faces I was seeing in the wood so others could see them as well.

Rick Mosher is best known as an artist working in traditional paint mediums (watercolor, oil and acrylic) He is also a photographer and digital artist. He has a tremendous love for color and most of his work reflects this. He is a recovered alcoholic and addict and a lot of his work reflects his addiction and recovery. Rick was influenced early in his career by a class in Photojournalism at Kent State University in 1970 and has always had an interest in photography and digital art. He worked in the Architectural Woodworking Industry for over 35 years as a wood finisher and faux painter doing his work in some of the most expensive homes in the United States. During this period he created a lot of his original Woodies. He attended...