Concept to Completion: Climbing the Jenga Tower

AP Art prompt: Create a concentration piece that incorporates a recognizable game piece.

Sketching crumbling Jenga towers for preparation.   Top two with reference, bottom three from imagination.

Pencil sketch which was then transferred onto the wooden board.  At first when I had painted the background orange I was just going to keep the Jenga blocks brown until I constructed the tower for fun using my physics teacher’s set:

At this point I realize that the light blue created a nice and needed contrast with the orange. 

Completed painting, of which I unfortunately did not take any progress shots as I had to work very quickly.