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Catalina Encaustic Map Painting with Shellac Burn
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. …
Encaustic Map Cube
I've been so obsessed with maps lately that I can't stop painting them. I think it's mainly because they have so much meaning. A map is essentially just a picture of straight and curved lines. But if you recognize the place it represents,…
Using a Stippling Technique to Build Texture in Encaustic Art
This painting was a study in problem solving for me. I knew what I wanted, but I didn't know how to get there. However, through my brainstorming and experimenting, I found and used some new and effective techniques that I absolutely fell…
Raleigh Past and Present- Encaustic Map
In this Encaustic map painting I've combined two maps of Raleigh. The first is a map from July 1797- "Plan of the City of Raleigh with all the improvements & all the Numbers july 1th, 1797". This is a plan for Raleigh's downtown. I printed it and used gel medium to adhere it to the wood board. Once I added a few layers of wax, I used a clay tool to make lines in the wax over the block squares, then filled them with burnt sienna oil paint.