French Waterfall, 2018, graphite on primed MDF, 30 x 60 cm. / 11.8 x 23.6 in.

French Waterfall, Andrea Shearing, 2018, graphite on primed MDF, 30 x 60 cm. / 11.8 x 23.6 in.

In making drawing to go with my shaped paintings and not wanting simply to make a shaped paper drawing that would be framed in a rectangle, I devised a method of drawing on MDF having primed the surface with thick acrylic paint. This gives the drawing amazing textures you could not get on paper.