This painting started out as watercolor and diluted inks on a couple of layers of milk paint. Then I covered that with clear encaustic. I wanted to keep layering, pushing back the color and pattern and adding more shapes and mark making on continuing layers.
It turned out I wanted more and more white and the only way I could achieve the look I wanted was to paint in white encaustic that had been softened with clear medium.
At the end of each day, I would think, "It is finished", then the next morning when I looked at it I felt "No, it still isn't right" Finally yesterday afternoon I feel it is finished and time to more on to another in this series.
And here is the process:
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| After the first layer of encaustic medium. |
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| I didn't like the composition with the three shapes in the center and the heavy black shape on the left. |
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| I turn the abstracts around on the easel for a different view. The middle shapes are softened and the heavy black shape is being scraped and layered over. |
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| center shapes are changing; more white over the top black shape. |
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| That shape that is on the left in this view still isn't right |
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| I am happier with it now and call it finished. Lots of white was added. |
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| A horizontal view |
