Phonebooks and a Finished Painting

Yesterday we had a phone book delivered to our door. Who uses a phone book these days? Not us! At least not for its intended purpose. I did decide to keep it, but with the intentions of repurposing, not looking up phone numbers. Who knows maybe I'll find a use for pieces of it in my art, already I have a few pages in use as paint brush cleaning surfaces. 
I just finished this piece after working on it on and off for months. It belongs to a series of abstract landscapes that I began working on last year. (You can see the rest of the series here )

Landscape Poetry with Red

16" x 20"

Oils on panel with glass fragments

A couple months ago when we were dismantling the set from the Singing Christmas Tree I was able to rescue some pieces of decent plywood and doorskin. Since I have decided that I prefer to paint on the rigid surface that wood provides, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to create some new painting surfaces at low cost. Finally last week I had the opportunity to build my new supports. I ended up with eight panels of various sizes, which is perfect because I was just running out of supports. I think I should be set for awhile with my new panels.

I just finished sanding one and am blocking in the first parts of a new painting on it!