Marilyn Fenn Studio

Jetsons’ Holiday
Encaustic on Panel
10″ x 10″

This is the second of my Organics series using encaustic.  I have started several more in this series in oil, and will likely attempt some in acrylic, as well.  And of course, there are all the sketches.
This piece went through quite a few changes during its creation.  That’s one [...]

Happy Together
Encaustic and rice paper on cradled birch panel
10″x 10″ x 1.75″ deep
©2009
Painting in Encaustic: Liberation and Challenge
For about the past year-and-a-half, I have been in a bit of despair over how to continue working in encaustic.
I started using encaustic paints in 2006. Encaustic paint is pigment suspended in a mixture of beeswax and damar resin [...]

These little 5″x 7″ paintings are what I would call representational abstractions based on the stuff of life seen under a microscope. I love knowing how things are made and how they look, and often I best understand how something is made by painting it. Microphotography allows us to see the tiny things that make up the world. These paintings are not strict copies, but are based on microphotographs of stuff like soap film, chemicals, silica and other crystals and crystalline structures.

Coming Right at Ya
Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper
9″ x 12″
Ta-da!!!  More rocks. 
The ~65th small work of 2009.

Rocks and Flowers
Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper
12″ x 9″
Every now and then, a landscape sneaks out, even though my aim is non-representational work. Whaddya gonna do?

Circuits
Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper
12″ x 9″

Red Stripe
Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper
12″ x 9″

Emerging Convergence – Fushia
Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper
9″ x 12″

Emerging Convergence – Blue
Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper
9″ x 12″

Magnetic
Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper
9″ x 12″