Blessed Easter to everyone.
Category: Encaustic
Finished art, painted with heated wax and other multi-media.
Turtles
Ash Wednesday, 2025
For the past three years I have set a painting per week as my Lenten observance. I’m very proud of this wall in my house where I display all of that work.
However, this year I will be following a private observance. I don’t have any encaustic ideas, and my weekly requirement to produce a painting, regardless of how finished it is, can be exhausting.
May your Lent (and mine) be fruitful.
Elizabeth Contemplates the Future
Three Kittens
A Christmas present for my daughter-in-law.
Bubbles
Underwater Sky
Here’s the WiP video I made two months ago.
I like much about this piece, especially the color, but I also am dissatisfied. I firmly believe, though, that creative work needs to finish and display. I’ve spent enough time tweaking; time to be done and move on.
Earrings
This is the last batch of store-bought wooden discs that I painted with wax. Elizabeth, who had the idea for earrings, finished each piece with hardware. These two pair have contrasting backs and fronts.
Modelling the different sides.
This last earring is more conventional. I learned, finally, that if I wanted to stamp an image it’s best to do it first. Once the wax is applied, the surface, no matter how beautifully fused, has imperfections that keep the ink from printing consistently.
Elizabeth improved a rather simple design by adding the perfect hardware. Thanks.
Death of a Tap
On the right is the new tap pull I made for our Still Water dispenser. On the left photo, it’s installed next to the Bubbly Water tap pull, as seen from the backside. That was its proud situation seven months ago.
This is its situation today:
The valve became a little sticky (not my fault!) and the smaller encaustic pull couldn’t withstand the torque.
I will say I’m not sorry to see it go. The vertical lettering was surprisingly difficult to get right, leading to many do-overs. Although I applied shellac to the encaustic, this tap didn’t get the epoxy treatment that the other tap got. I don’t feel particularly inspired to create another one. Those of you who drink still water (not me!) will just have to use a boring, plain stick as a tap.
Fish earrings
A few months ago I made a YouTube about my process of laying watercolor over this stamped fish image on a wooden disk. I now present the finished product. Thanks to Elizabeth for preparing the substrate, finishing the hardware, and modeling the earrings.
