organic paintings

A Cool New Painting for Winter

Jetsons’ Holiday
Encaustic on Baltic Birch
10″ x 10″ x 1.75″ deep
© 2009 Marilyn Fenn

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.

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Kind of a Surprise: New Encaustic Piece

Happy Together
Encaustic and rice paper on Baltic birch
10″ x 10″ x 1.75″ deep
© 2009
Marilyn Fenn

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 that the artist heats and paints with while in a melted state (the paint, not the artist ;) ) – you can read more about encaustic here.

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