cleaning the studio...

...and other adventures in art

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....

The Daily Bird, Day 30

It doesn’t always go so smoothly in the studio. I’m constantly revising, and not always with happy results. This particular piece was started on Day 3. I rather liked the first version, but when I decided it wasn’t finished, I ended up with an awful...