recent paintings and news

recent paintings and news

Thursday, January 20, 2011

encaustic




 


A few new encaustic paintings in the experimental stage. I've worked in this beautiful medium on and off for quite a few  years, and they have synthesized with my outdoor paintings and drawings made during daily hikes-


ie the uprooted field flowers and fragments embedded around the encaustic paintings were pulled from the earth in the same area.


Black eyed susans, wild asters, milkweed, queen anne's lace, goldenrod, wheat, alfalfa and seeds are preserved forever, planted and embroidered in rich layers of natural beeswax. (To view earlier work, visit here.)






Having said that, lately the medium has been taking me somewhere new, and I am easily led. 





Passing a Way
encaustic on panel
10x14in, 2011



 
Passing a Way
encaustic on panels
10x14in, 2011

 

 
Passing a Way
encaustic on panel
10x8in, 2011



Passing a Way
encaustic on panel
10x22in, 2011






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2 comments:

  1. RH CarpenterJanuary 21, 2011 at 7:22 AM

    This is a very interesting and textural medium. I've never used it but like the idea of adding the organic elements in with the work. Beautiful and a real saving of a time and place.

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  2. Jan Yates, SCA, CanadaJanuary 22, 2011 at 9:08 AM

    RH I LOVE how you arrange your words! Encaustic is also very forgiving - you can take paintings that don't work and incorporate them with this technique to create something new and often quite exciting.

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