And another one....

This one is done on 5"x5" claybord. The poppy and stem are done with tissue paper and pastels. There's some pumice gel and fiber paste in there too.

More acrylic encaustic...

This is another acrylic encaustic. The photograph that is imprinted in the medium is from a black and white one my sister, Roberta Fair, took. The color has all been added using fluid acrylics and acrylic ink, and the grasses are fiber paste and pumice gel.

Acrylic Encaustic?

I really want to mess with encaustic painting someday and am planning on taking a mini-workshop in November at R&F Handmade Paints in Kingston, NY. It sounds like a great deal....the cost includes the use of all the paints. I can't wait to try it out. Just got the fantastic and inspiring book Encaustic Workshop by Patricia Baldwin Seggebrauch to hold me over. :)

In the meantime, I've been experimenting with faux encaustic using various acrylic mediums as described in Rethinking Acrylic by Patti Brady. Here are a couple I just did mainly to try out the properties of the various mixes. They are both on claybord, one 6"x6" and the other 5"x7". The 2nd one has my sister's (photographer Roberta Fair) macros as a first layer.

Texture experiments...

I've been looking at some things I've started and either just hate them or have lost all inspiration for where the piece is going. Not being one to waste art supplies, I've been slapping some gesso on them and starting over. Since some are pretty textured already, I'm just building on it and am enjoying the textures I've been getting by stamping other found objects into the gesso. Here are a couple of close ups of the one I did last night. Not sure what the finished work will be yet, but I'm liking the background!

Some new paintings........finally!

Well I've finally gotten my life to settle down just a little bit and was able to get my brushes wet. Felt really good. Here are the three that I finished today. The first one is mixed media collage on watercolor paper, 1/4 sheet.


The second is mixed media collage on 12"x12" Aquabord.


This third is mixed media on 8"x8" Aquabord.