cleaning the studio...

...and other adventures in art

The Daily Bird, Day 5

I’m not sure that this one is finished yet. Sometimes the wax and the panel get too hot to work and it’s best to just set it aside for a while. I’ll pick it up again in a few days.

The Daily Bird, Day 4

I’ve never done penguins before. They don’t even qualify as birds using my criterion of “ask a person what a bird does and they will answer, ‘fly'”. But, here they are. I like the abstract compositional qualities of this piece. These...

red-yellow-blue

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...