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 [...]

“Tornado – Erie, KS – November 27, 2005″
Encaustic on Masonite
8″ x 10″
I have thought of creating a painting based on this one, but much larger than it’s 8″x10″ size, and more abstracted.  It could look something like this.
(from this fun little site: dumpr.net )

The tour this year was great. Even with a little rain on Saturday, over 110 people did make it to my little home studio for the tour. I believe most of the people who came had specifically picked out my work to come see. Considering there were about 210 artists and over [...]

July 24, 2007
In this issue:

Austin Visual Arts Association 30th Anniversary Show – Closes July 30th
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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 [...]

Tornado – Stoughton, WI – August 18, 2006”
Encaustic on Masonite, Mounted on Plywood Mat
8″ x 10″
O.D. 11″ x 15″
©2007
I actually started this one prior to the one in the previous post (below).   This was the first of the tornado paintings painted into a rough and very absorbent watercolor paper mounted on Masonite.
This is also [...]

“Tornado – Big Pine Key, FL – April 14, 2005”
Encaustic on Masonite, Mounted on Plywood Mat
8″ x 10″
O.D. 11″ x 15″
©2007
You can see I’ve gotten comfortable with the encaustic process again, as this little painting (which I love), has gotten more away from abstraction than the three previous ones (below).
This one was painted into rough [...]

“Tornado – Erie, KS – November 27, 2005”
Encaustic on Masonite, Mounted on Plywood Mat
8″ x 10″
O.D. 11″ x 15″
©2007
Here’s another — a really huge tornado. I love how the diagonal lines worked out in this piece. It is again, one of those paintings that’s truly paint first and an image second.
I imagine painting [...]

“Tornado From Below”
Encaustic on Masonite, Mounted on Plywood Mat
8″ x 10″
O.D. 11″ x 15″
©2007
I’m not sure where I found the image for this painting, and I really can’t imagine anyone being brave or crazy enough to stand under a tornado and take a photograph.
But it’s a fascinating image, and here’s my take on it.  [...]

“Tornado – Ames, IA – March 30, 2006″
Encaustic on Masonite, Mounted on Plywood Mat
8″ x 10″
O.D. 11″ x 15″
©2007
It felt so good to see my little tornado paintings in the AVAA show, and I’ve always intended to keep painting them until…whenever. So, here’s my first tornado painting in a while; I had started it [...]

Snippet of painting by Marilyn Fenn
“Tornado – Erie, KS – November 27, 2005″
Encaustic on Masonite, Mounted on Plywood Mat
10″ x 8″, O.D. 15″ x 11, ©2007
Sometimes I feel like I ought to have those horrible flashing red and yellow banners on my art site, proclaiming the words that I sometimes get as compliments on my [...]

…was great! The place was packed with folks all evening long!
Quite a few of my friends came by, and I ran into several other people I knew from other venues. The music by the Atlantics was really good; there was plenty of wine and some great food.
The show was full of very strong work. [...]

Painting by Marilyn Fenn
“Tornado – Clay, AZ”
Encaustic on Masonite, Mounted on Plywood Mat and Framed
10″ x 8″, O.D. 15″ x 11″
Juried Show at The Dougherty:
A couple of my paintings have been chosen for the Austin Visual Arts Association’s 30th Anniversary Exhibit & Reunion, to be held at the Dougherty Arts Center location, 1110 Barton [...]

Painting by Marilyn Fenn
“Burning Ice”
Oil on Canvas
10″x10″
2006
The 2006 East Austin Studio Tour was fabulous!   Over 130 people came by my studio, and I even sold quite a few things.  I enjoyed meeting so many art fans, and seeing friends in this setting.  I had a lot of fun and will probably do it again [...]

November 14, 2006
East Austin Studio Tour
I will be participating in the East Austin Studio Tour this coming Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 18th & 19th from 10am to 5pm.  I will be opening my tiny home studio to the public for the first time for this tour.
I have over 2 dozen new paintings to show this [...]