Southwest pottery illusion

I like this piece, the shape, texture, and color all complement each other and work well. Sorry if this is an obvious question, but why is the maple so yellow? Is it the Danish oil, the wood, or just the picture?

Unrelated to this post, but how much time does the embellishing and basket illusion add to one of your works?

Isaac Litster said:

I like this piece, the shape, texture, and color all complement each other and work well. Sorry if this is an obvious question, but why is the maple so yellow? Is it the Danish oil, the wood, or just the picture?

Unrelated to this post, but how much time does the embellishing and basket illusion add to one of your works?

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Thanks Isaac. The danish oil probably does cause the yellowing more than anything else. This wood is pretty blonde to begin with and then this particular piece was starting to get a little dry rot too. I use DO because it also intensifies the india ink colors. As for the time, it varies. Basket illusion takes me more time than something like this. I printed out the lizard to the size I needed (there are 3 of them) and used transfer paper to draw them on the wood. The rest is freehand. Maybe 8-10 hours turning, drawing, texturing and coloring on this one, 20-50 hours on a basket illusion depending on the size.

Stunning! The yellowing from the danish oil is perfect. Great job