Encaustic musings....

Well, I finally got my smiling face in the right column. That wasn't easy and took quite a while. I was almost going to abandon blogger all together but that seemed too complicated to go somewhere else. Last night I loaded Leopard on to my MacBook and decided to try again with blogger and it worked!!!

I am heading off into my studio to rework some encaustics. Last weekend I got shelves put up in my tiny space and I can now see the work I have been doing. Now that I can see it, I want to make some changes. My encaustics all used to be piled along the wall separated by wax paper....and I really forgot what was there.

I am having a blast working in this medium!!! It is interesting for me to go into the studio without an idea of what I am going to do and then discover what happens. I spent years oil painting and I would go into the studio to paint a still life, and I knew it was going to look like some tomatos or whatever it was.

My only problem now, is with the county officials, our architect and builder. My husband and I are building a building, 2 exactly, one for his business and one for me. All I wanted was a studio and a place to hang my and others work. It appears that if I call it a 'gallery' I have all sorts of some what ridiculous restrictions regarding bathrooms, and sprinklers and I think parking, as legally it falls into the category of 'assembly' like a church. Hmmmm, if I put it as 'mercentile' like a store those issues are gone. But it seems that the officials may think my store that sells art is a gallery. It will be curious to see how this one works out. It was suggested that I called it a frame shop, that sold art, but I want to paint not frame

I will be posting some new paintings very soon, I have been doing a lot of work.

It's been a long time

I have not posted here as I have been stuck trying to move a photo over to the profile section for a long time. Haven't gotten that done due to blogger and I lost the photo I had here. So I might as well update things.

I have fine tuned my website and have done many more encaustic paintings than are on my site. I would rather make art than photograph art. This Wednesday, the 24th of October there is supposed to be an article in our local paper Florida Today, about my paintings and my donating 10% to the Central Asia Institute. I am committed to raising money to help the Institute, so I put all my paintings on sale---50% off. There are some really nice paintings there, and some people will get a really good deal. But I would like to get my paintings out there . My small studio is over run with paintings right now.