carved encasutic

My daughter, Cynthia and I will be moving to a much bigger house, a bit outside of town, in a couple of weeks. My studio will be more than twice the size I have now with cross ventilation and lots of light.

I walk into my existing studio, and wonder where to begin the packing. So much to organize and walls to scrape and paint. Not only my students have splashed encaustic on the walls and floors, I have bumped  a couple of cans of hot wax off the palette also. Then there are the stacks for my paintings that will have be the first thing in the new house. Moving paintings will be the most time consuming job.

Naturally, I won't have time to make new work before the move, so here are a couple of images of a carved encaustic portrait I did last year. It is all encaustic, no plaster. It is now in the Encaustic  Art Institute in New Mexico.

oil portrait - still not finished

It's getting close to being finished. It still need work on the arms. Whole thing looks flat. One more day. I am getting bored with this effort and want to get back to encaustic and some vigorous painting

transfers on encaustic and shellac burn

In this class, I show you how to use transfers, oil glazes, "special" shellac burn and India ink.

I think I have all the classes filmed. Now on to the editing.


1. Hot pen drawing over luminous layers

2. Oil stained board and smooth encaustic surface

3. Creative Stenciling

4. Building layers, scraping and carving

5. Collage

6. Incising lines and drawing on rice paper

7. Transfers and shellac burn

8. Combing oil paint and encaustic

9. Creating heavy, rock-like textures

10  Encaustic on paper

11. Sculpting in encasutic