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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. …
Wax cube close up

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,…
The Outer Banks Encaustic

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…
historical encaustic

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.