Encaustic Paintings
Transformations: The Struggle to Create
When I paint, I frequently have only a very vague idea or sometimes -- no idea at all -- of what I am searching for in the new work. I start somewhere, and often, the finished piece is so far away from where it started, it's unrecognizable. One of my favorite things about working this way is that I discover things -- such as shapes and images -- that I just couldn't invent. See full post »
New Tornado Paintings
I have completed two new tornado paintings; one was the one I started a few weeks ago while being interviewed for a Weather Channel segment about my tornado paintings. It's changed a lot since it was filmed in progress (final version above; first version below). See full post »
A Cool New Painting for Winter
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 of the challenging things for me about encaustic. See full post »
Kind of a Surprise: New Encaustic Piece
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 that the artist heats and paints with while in a melted state (the paint, not the artist ;) ) - you can read more about encaustic here. See full post »
6 New Encaustic Paintings
As promised, here are 6 of my new encaustic paintings -- 5 of these were begun at last weekend's encaustic workshop at Majestic Ranch. I completed them and created one new painting (so far) after returning home. See full post »
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