cleaning the studio...

...and other adventures in art

The Daily Bird, Days 44 and 45

Some of these pieces are very difficult to photograph.  The one on the right, below, is a case in point. The piece itself is quite textural, and the texture is critical to the piece, but none of the texture comes across in the photo. So you’ll just have to come...

shockingly pink

I readily admit I’m a pushover for color. This pink hasn’t been seen in these pieces so far. It’s Dianthus Pink from R&F Paints. I already regularly use it in oil-paint-stick form, but I just bought the encaustic paint version for the first time....

The Daily Bird, Day 41

I often add barbed wire, nails and other metal materials to my encaustic images, but the relentless (!) schedule of doing fifty pieces in fifty days has thus far precluded that sort of work. This piece called for it, so I added a strip of painted hardware cloth....