A one-day beauty greeted me this morning when I went to the terrace to water my raised vegetable garden.

I added skin tones to her face. What do you think? Is is an improvement?

Thinking of Daises 12" x 12"

Pensive, 6" x 6"

This has been an interesting week. It has taken 5 days to move my website to another hosing service; the timing belt on my car broke and my camera has been "removed" from my home. It was sitting next to my computer Wednesday. After some workmen left, I couldn't find my camera. I am using my iPod touch to photograph the new work. Not the greatest photos, but amazing to me that they are as clear as they are.

This first piece was one I did 12 years ago when I was just beginning in encaustic. the figures were painted in oil and I covered most of the background with encaustic over color and laboriously carved in the patterns.

This second painting, I finished yesterday.

!2' x 12" encaustc and metal

Here are the beginnings of the two paintings that I previously posted.

My computer crashed a week ago. This was the fourth hard drive installed on my "demon" computer. There were days I thought I would never be able to get everything back. Of course, I had everything backed up on an external hard drive, but so what if the computer is dead? I learned my lesson after my hard working tech spent days on it and brought it to life again today. I wrote down all my passwords on real paper.

10" x 10" encaustic, oil and rice paper

10" x 10" encaustic, oil, collage

One good thing about not accessing the computer, I finally was inspired to start a new series. I made a couple of small paintings and am looking forward to continuing in this vein. I will make a YouTube video of the process and let you know when it is posted.

My raised vegetable garden on my terrace. I harvest everyday

Early morning inspiration

I have just had a realization that I have been painting for over 60 years! No wonder I am becoming impatient with artists that work in the encaustic medium who do not make paintings, just pretty surfaces. These are the most boring images I have even seen and the web is full of these images. Is there a female version of curmudgeon? 

I am doing more art teaching in the workshops. I said I wasn't going to do that, but sometimes I just can't help myself. I plead with people to look at negative space, use some composition...

I am taking a break from teaching and enjoying my garden and still editing my manuscript, but I have some painting image that are pushing into my mind.

Here is a video I made about a year ago: Abstract encaustics