Not well at all

Handy Tip: Sketching

I normally sharpen the end of the brushes I take with me in the field, so I can draw with them too, dipped in paint. They're like a bamboo pen. Just stick them in a pencil sharpener.

Brilliant Tip from Cathy Johnson, whose Artist Journal Workshop blog is super.

Studio = closer

Atelier One Eff?

Figures

Studio

New studio space, the before view. Stay tuned! Yeeeee-haw!


[More here and here.]

Pic of studio common space during recent holiday open house.

Resolved

Go out.
Sketch more.

Flying Formation

Geese, 10" x 10", encaustic and mixed media on panel
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. Robert Bresson

A new year!

Pop the Strate

Lollipop 3, 10" x 10", paper and encaustic on panel.

(Wherein Lollipop monotype was glued to a panel and used as the substrate for the encaustic. The Saint-Armand paper worked very nicely with the encaustic. Love the stuff!)
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Merry Christmas, one and all!

Hominids

Globes, approx 8" x 8", encaustic monotype on Saint-Armand "Colours" watercolor paper, with charcoal pencil.

Monotype

Lollipop, approx 8" x 10", encaustic monotype on Saint-Armand "Colours" watercolor paper. (Companion piece here.)
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Summer Days

Winslow Homer, Artists Sketching in the White Mountains 1868 (Portland Museum of Art)
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France. Nuff said?

Eight and Done

Eight and Done, 10" x 10", encaustic, seeds, and paper on panel.

Princess Hat

Princess Hat, 10" x 10" encaustic and antique linen pillowcase on panel

What is it about princesses, that they actually look good in hats? I ask you: is this fair?


☛ Kathryn Dettwiller's list of reasons she loves encaustic, all of which I share: Let Me Count the Reasons
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Bonhomie

Shower Curtain, 10" x 10" encaustic on panel. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hey, Spottie!

Sun Spots, 10" x 10" encaustic on panel












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Two more pieces from this weekend -- Tube and Water  -- in the Gallery2010. I am thinking of filling the thin incised lines in Water with a pigment stick color. What do you think? Should I use a compliment (an orange or a yellow orange) or an adjacent (a blue or a green)?

Vote! What color lines should I add to Water? See it in Gallery2010.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!

Autumn Fruit Fullness

From Snorgtees.

Latitude Longitude

'Yellow Grid', 8" x 8", encaustic + mixed media on panel. (This one is way better in person than on the web. Sorry.)











☛ See 6 (!) more new pieces in the Gallery here:


☛ See new Introduction to Encaustics page. Please leave comments and questions!

I like how it cuts the sky

I had a delightful dusk encounter with Richard Serra yesterday that I very much enjoyed.

Wait! Hush!

A peculiar "museum" is one whose printed Visitor Guidelines include this gem: Please do not publish any writing about your visit to [...] through public or social media.

I like the please part. Should I honor that humble yet unbelievably, almost absurdly pretentious request?

Fiddlesticks to that.

I can and I will still gush and moan and drool all over the Serra. What a spectacular job HE has, eh? Dream up these utterly riveting objects and then actually freaking build them. This one is outdoors and it was about 4:30, the sun right above the horizon and glaring through between among an adjacent leafless stand of trees. Inside the Serra it was kind of dark and scratchy. But the sky above me was lit luminous, so the rusty walls glowed. There is one tree, very nearby (an oval puddle of its fallen leaves was like a welcome mat, right at my entrance to the spiral) and looking up from various spots inside you can see the crown of this tree gripping the top edge of my Serra.

Now "my" Serra, totally. "I like how it cuts the sky" was his comment on this particular installation and I wholeheartedly share his appraisal.

Indra's Cloud

by Anne Percoco. Read/see more here.

From bright to muted

Ghost Scratch, 10" x 10", encaustic and "vintage" Irish linen on panel


Blue Fists, 10" x 10", encaustic and mixed media on panel

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☛ See new Introduction to Encaustics page. Please leave comments and questions!
☛ I added these two pieces (above), and two other new pieces, to the Gallery:

Better luck next time!

And there will be a next time.

"Painterly"

Definitions of "painterly" through the ages. Consensus? Hmm. Most of them mention color vs. line. I prefer something a bit more encompassing.

My fav def so far, from Dan Twitchell:
A work of art done in a manner that embraces, shows, and celebrates the medium it's created in (be it oil paint, pastels, watercolor, graphite, charcoal, ink, etc.), rather than tries to hide the act of creation.