2 new encaustic paintings

I made two more nest paintings for my "Hatching" series. These are 10" x 10" and probably the last of this series.

Mexican images in encaustic

I am getting
 everything ready for my open house Oct. 28th. That also means pulling older paintings out of the stacks and deciding if they are a hit or a miss. These paintings that I made 6 years ago still had great meaning to me, but they needed more punch, so I reworked them a bit. I have carved into the encaustic as well as adding photos of San Miguel in each painting.

I have been fascinated with the history and culture of Mexico even since I was a teen. Now that I live here I continue to read and absorb even more of this ancient culture.

detail of carving

review of coming show

detail

A Dialogue of Two Artists

Ezshwan Winding and Paola Uribe Gaudry at Galeria 6

By nick Hamblen

 There are those wonderful moments in life when things just fall together, perfectly, leaving no doubt that all is well, and as it should be, in the Universe. Such has been the case in the pairing and exhibition of the works of Ezshwan Winding and Paola Uribe Gaudry which opens tomorrow at Galeria 6 in Mineral de Pozos.

   Though these two artist have never met, and will indeed not do so until the opening tomorrow, I believe you will as was I, be amazed at the synchronicity and dialog that sizzles between their respective styles.

   Winding, well known to San Miguel as the local maestra of encaustic painting and in her third show at Galeria 6, has produced a body of entirely new work that will amaze even her die hard fans and collectors for it’s depth, intensity and execution. In a career spanning over sixty years this award-winning artist has devoted the last thirteen years to the mastery of the encaustic technique.

  Says Winding “ My process is much like analyzing a dream. Layer after layer is applied, scraped, incised, fused and marked to allow the truth of the piece to speak. The revealed layers whisper their subtle messages.” We could not agree more.

   In her first appearance at Galeria 6, Paola Uribe Gaudry is showing a group of dreamy landscapes that she calls “Horizons” executed primarily in ink and resin. These ethereal paintings invite the viewer into a place that the Gaudry describes as “where memory, imagination and feeling meet on the horizon.”

   In her twenty year career as a painter and art educator Gaudry has successfully explored many intriguing themes. In these superb landscapes she challenges us to stop for a moment to contemplate the beauty of the fleeting and increasingly ephemeral moment.

   There is here in the bodies of work by these two artists, an integrity that will not be lost on true lovers of fine art.

"If These Walls Could Talk"

Burned out!

I am ready for a break. I have been working every day for weeks now. The results of the last few days do not satisfy me. I will put the paintings away, and plan on cleaning the studio soon. It is such a mess, that it is adding to my discontent.

I did rework a couple of older paintings that are fine, and these are posted. I think there are improvements, but at this time, I am not sure I am seeing clearly and I am joining a couple of artists friends for a glass of wine.

The many lives of this encaustic painting

I  decided to  photograph the progress of this painting and it turned out to be a valuable experience.

I usually apply the hot encaustic paint while the painting is flat on the table and fuse it with the torch.  When I put it on an easel,  I get a whole other view of it.

At the end of each painting session, when I think the painting might be finished. I hang the work on a wall in a sun flooded hall that I can see from my desk and the living room.

Each day, as time passed into evening, I felt uncomfortable about the painting. I could then review the work of the previous days in the saved photos and see where I had made improvements or really messed up.

I had gotten to the point where I posted the painting with the medallion on my fan page and website, but still felt an uneasiness about it.

Wednesday and Thursday a few artists visited me in the studio and I asked there opinion about this painting. All three of them went right to the weak spot. I had added a textured small circle to the middle of it and it just wasn't working. Today, I got rid of that spot and enhanced some of the color.


What do you think?

Out damned spot!

This was about the third or fourth day

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2nd day

End of the first day. Hardly the same painting