Marilyn Fenn Studio

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 [...]

“What Have We Become?”
9 Digital Prints with Encaustic on Masonite and Chain Links
~34″ x 37″
Here are pictures of most of my pieces from the Netroots Nation/Texas Kaos show.

What a great show!  My large piece “What Have We Become?” was prominently featured on the main wall and was big hit with the Netroots Nation folks.  One guy even gave me a huge hug when he found I was the artist of that piece.
I had my 5 paintings of nuclear bombs in this [...]

Blogging from the Right Side of the Brain Art Exhibit
Texas Kaos Presents Netroots Nation After Party and Art Exhibit
Hosted by Bay6 Gallery and Studios
Reception:
Saturday July 19th
7:00PM to 10:00PM
5305 Bolm Rd Bay6 Austin TX.
As the Netroots Nation conference winds to a close Saturday evening, we invite you to join us and Bloggers from across the nation [...]

“Operation Bravo”
Encaustic on Plexiglas
12″ x 12″
©2007
I had wanted to complete more of my planned large series of atomic bomb paintings done in time to apply to a local show dealing with war.  I’ve got only 5 done now, and these last two need a little tweaking, but for now, here they are:

I suppose that sounds more like a political statement than one on art, but as I’m working on a large series of paintings of nuclear bombs, it really is a statement about my art.
I envision painting about 100 paintings of nuclear bombs, which would be just a drop in the bucket compared to how many [...]