Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Silhouette



This small (8x10) encaustic on board painting carries a lot of punch. It just got juried into the Artists Registry of Florida show at the Avalon Gallery in Orlando, next month. I really like the imagery and would like to do it much larger. This was a good experiment. Larger, she would be haunting.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

11-11-08


Quite the auspicious day. I am doing my encaustics as much as I can and those days that I get to spend all day in the studio are awesome. Something has been telling me to get a series going but my attentions span doesn't last beyond 3 of the same idea and then I am off to another project. So the question is: Does one have to limit their creative expression on one style/type of art? This painting started with a few upward brush strokes and it was so much fun to do.....

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Back in the swing of things



After the holiday haitus, I am back into the studio. I melted down some of my earlier encaustics that weren't making it and they sure came out well once they were reborn. I think because I use only pure colors, no earth tones or black, they really have a magically way to work themselves out. My new series that is on my website, are all the same. They were something else and were reborn... now if only I could figure out how to make them without having to do the first part, I would be styling. I am still having fun, I love encaustics! Only once so far did I almost burn my house down... I was at the point of going for the fire extinguisher but didn't want to deal with cleaning up the mess it would make. So I beat the fire out... such are the trials of using a torch to make art. I signed up for the 2nd annual encaustic conference in the spring, and I recently got a grant to learn 'marketing for artist'. Now won't that come in handy.