by Barbara Downs | Jun 27, 2010
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....
by Barbara Downs | Jun 18, 2010
by Barbara Downs | Jun 16, 2010
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...