by Barbara Downs | May 17, 2010
Prepping my 50 panels for encaustic takes some time: Cut cabinet-grade birch plywood into 6″x6″ panels; Sand lightly as needed; Tape edges to prevent glue from dripping (encaustic doesn’t like glue); Glue the photos; weight them overnight; Remove...
by Barbara Downs | May 12, 2010
photo before encaustic Small Bird Study Number 12, Encaustic/Oil/Photo on Panel, 6" x 6", 2009, Private Collection While I’m on the subject of birds and encaustic, here’s a 6″x6″ encaustic bird that I did last year. This is similar...
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 11, 2010
Excited! I was juried into the 50-50 show at the Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA. The artists selected by the juror, Marian Parmenter of the SFMoMA Artist’s Gallery, are to do 50 pieces in 50 days, and at the end of the 50 days the pieces will be hung at the...
