by Barbara Downs | May 20, 2010
Today was primary-color day. Red-Yellow-Blue. It’s probably obvious that I love color, but I feel the urge to go wild with color with these small encaustic pieces. There’s no risk…I can easily scrape the wax off if it just doesn’t work. And...
by Barbara Downs | May 11, 2010
Thanks to NBF (Non-Blogging Friend), I’ve been doing some thinking about the ‘still birds’ pieces. I’ve done many drawings and encaustic pieces based on photos of either dead birds or taxidermied birds (which, regardless of how lifelike they...
by Barbara Downs | May 9, 2010
Welcome to my new blog! Why “cleaning the studio…?” Well, first of all, because it has to be done. Sometimes. And it’s better than cleaning my house! When I’m ‘stuck’, feeling uncertain about what I’m working on, I clean...
