Category: Stations of the Cross

It’s an official completed series! My first. For the most part I ended up satisfied with them and didn’t tweak. However, Four was always going to need work. We knew that at the time. And Eight wasn’t quite finished. Otherwise, I’m happy.

Continuing with what I began last year, every Friday during Lent I will create an encaustic of the next Station of the Cross. I will not plan ahead, but only contemplate the particular week’s mystery after the previous is posted. If the piece is unfinished (and none of them are ready) it goes up anyway.

This week I cheated, lol. This is a repurposed existing piece. For some reason the Eighth Station and the weeping women led me to the traditional Pelican image, tearing apart her breast to feed her chicks. I was already dissatisfied with how the Cormorant had aged, so this seemed a good time to update it.

I consider these now complete, except for the Fourth Station. That rose will continue to change over time. I’ll revisit the piece next Lent and we’ll see how it faded.