Black Lace, almost new encasutic painting

Black Lace, 24"x 32", encaustic over oil, India ink and shellac

This seems to be a time of re-working some older paintings. I added more shellac for another burn, giving a lacy feel.

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

The name of this painting is, Shadow of an Angel. Can you find the angel?

  I will be donating it to an auction to supporting a wonderful children's art program in some of the poorest areas in San Miguel de Allende. I made this work 6 years ago, and at that time I didn't realize that all those dots had to be well fused into the surface. Many of them had popped off through the years. I used an encasutic hot pen to rebuild them all. Everything really is square, but my camera distorted it.



 The detail is of the carving I did into the encaustic surface.

I have a few more of this series that I intend to freshen up and make sure that the surface is stable and permanent.

Second encaustic book published.

 The second book of my encaustic paintings is finished and ready to review. This one is figurative.
I look forward to getting my hard cover copies. I hope the colors are accurate.
http://www.blurb.com/books/3583189
Please click on the link above and check it out and let me know what you think.

56 years of making art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNTKkKsySyM&feature=share&list=UUCPHC8Fq1OYjUmCumXBEjgw 

Here is a link to a video I made a couple of years ago. It is a sampling of my work over the past 56 years - now 58 years!!

I just posted my Abstract Encaustic book on blurb. You can see it for free:
http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3575810?ce=blurb_ew&utm_source=widget

private encasutic class

 Jannet from Toronto Canada came to my studio yesterday for an advanced technique workshop. She decided that she wanted me to show her as many techniques as possible in our 5 hours together, rather than work on her own paintings.
 So we covered transfers using acetone; easy laser transfers from parchment paper; using water sprays to create lava-like textures; carving; molding encaustic shapes; oil glazes; using charcoal; India ink, drawing on rice paper and embedding; hot pen drawing with encaustic and more.

Jannet took lots of notes and studied the hundreds of photos of participants' work in scrapbooks that I keep.