by Barbara Downs | May 23, 2010
by Barbara Downs | May 22, 2010
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.
by Barbara Downs | May 21, 2010
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...
by Barbara Downs | May 20, 2010
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...