Marilyn Fenn Studio

Tornado with Debris Cloud, version 2 Encaustic on Baltic Birch 10″ x 10″ x 2″ © 2010 Marilyn Fenn 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 [...]

“Most storm chasers use a camera.” (a guest at one of my studio tours) I have some exciting news! I was interviewed last week by the Weather Channel. They plan to air a little feature on my paintings of tornadoes sometime in April at the start of tornado season. The local cameraman who works for [...]

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 [...]

“Tornado – Erie, KS – November 27, 2005″ Encaustic on Masonite 8″ x 10″ © 2007 Marilyn Fenn 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 100 studios on [...]

July 24, 2007 In this issue: Austin Visual Arts Association 30th Anniversary Show – Closes July 30th More New Artwork ArtBlog for Latest News

“Atomic Bomb Buster Jangle Charlie” encaustic on masonite 8″ x 10″ © 2007 Marilyn Fenn 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 [...]

“Tornado – Stoughton, WI – August 18, 2006” Encaustic on Masonite 8″ x 10″ © 2007 Marilyn Fenn 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 [...]

“Tornado – Big Pine Key, FL – April 14, 2005” Encaustic on Masonite 8″ x 10″ © 2007 Marilyn Fenn 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 [...]

“Tornado – Erie, KS – November 27, 2005” Encaustic on Masonite 8″ x 10″ © 2007 Marilyn Fenn 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 this [...]

“Tornado From Below” Encaustic on Masonite 8″ x 10″ © 2007 Marilyn Fenn 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 8″ x 10″ © 2007 Marilyn Fenn 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 months [...]

Snippet of painting: “Tornado – Erie, KS – November 27, 2005″ Encaustic on Masonite 10″ x 8″ © 2007 Marilyn Fenn 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 work. But I won’t, [...]

…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 [...]

“Tornado – Clay, AZ” Encaustic on Masonite 10″ x 8″ © 2007 Marilyn Fenn 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 Springs Road. The show will open [...]

“Burning Ice” Oil on Canvas 10″ x 10″ © 2006 Marilyn Fenn 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 [...]

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 [...]