This wall was quite an arduous task of getting right, I’m still not quite sure I’m finished with it as I keep seeing little things to add or take away, but I am happy with how its turned out and think its a convincing take on a stone wall. I found the key to getting it right was to make the painting as random as possible, to give it a real stoney feel.
I used kapaline foam board and tore the protective paper off revealing this easy to mark foam. After I engraved it using the back of a scalpel and technical pencil, I started painting areas with different shades of grey, although I soon realised I should have used wet brushing to get in all the cracks and crevices before instead of after this so as to make sure non of the foam is showing through. However, after some more finer work, I used a dry brushing technique to give it a lovely rocky finish.
Bending Sticks 