Creating an encaustic painting on a cube requires a bit more patience than a typical 2D painting. I tend to try to work too fast most of the time, especially when I’m filming a video, and I found that to be more of a problem with this piece. Luckily, encaustic is such a forgiving medium that no matter what happens, its’ fixable. All the extra drips and bare spots were not hard to redo, even with through the shellac.
I’m not sure where my fascination with clusters of shapes and holes comes from, but I find myself coming back to this type of work again and again. From my quilled abstract works to this new line of encaustic pieces, clusters of circles are everywhere. I guess you could call me a trypophile, rather than a trypophobe.
It is such a great feeling when you haven’t been able to create for a long time, and then suddenly you feel inspiration hit out of nowhere that helps you get back into the swing of things. I’ve been focusing so much on encaustic for so long, and I still am, but it’s so fun to go back to my roots and do some work with abstract quilling.
This is going to be a hard post. I suppose that makes sense since the subject matter is so emotional. Still, I feel it’s important to share this, so here I go. My husband’s mother recently passed away. Rather than go into all the details, I’ll simply say that the past few weeks have been […]
Whew, this has been a crazy couple of weeks! I opened my studio, started a local artist meet up, updated my youtube channel, and of course worked on some pretty awesome pieces of art, including this Catalina encaustic map painting. This one was super fun, though building up the texture does take quite a […]
My husband and I were on a weekend trip in Asheville, NC, a few years ago and spent quite a bit of time walking through the local art galleries and shops. There were so many amazing pieces that inspired me after that trip, but the piece that stuck with me the most was a hand made […]