another honeycomb

This an acrylic piece I did on a wood slab. It was my typical honeycomb design but I wanted to challenge myself and do it in acrylic. It didn't come out as realistic as I had hoped it would but I don't work i acrylic often so my skills are still developing. I started but tracing the hexagon pattern over the whole surface and then went in with a deep brown and traced around the sides creating the "walls" of the honeycomb where the honey is held inside. I then went in with three shades (an orange yellow, yellow, and a very pale yellow) and painted the honey. At the end, I went in with a lighter brown and tried adding highlights to the walls. Then after that, I covered the top surface with Resin to create a shiny finish.

Repetition is the main principle since it literally is just the same pattern repeated over and over again. There is texture in the wood which is one of the reasons I wanted to paint on this because I wanted to try working on texture and seeing if it would change my painting in any way. A way I tried adding depth was using a darker yellow on one side and then a lighter shade of yellow on the opposite side. It didn't turn out how I wanted it to but I am not mad with the overall product.

Every time I paint honeycombs I don't really have a reason why other than I felt like it. I don't know why I enjoy painting them so much, I think I find some sort of comfort in the repetition. At this point another reason I paint these is that I'm trying to make them more realistic each time I paint them, my goal is to get so realistic with them that you can't tell it's just a piece of paper.

I mentioned before that this piece didn't turn out how I had hoped it would of turned out, I was hoping it'd look more like the real thing versus just a pattern or design. I think where I messed up was in the overall shading of the honey, it was so simple and not detailed enough. But even throughout all the disappointment, I am still proud of how it turned out.