Encaustic – Page 4 – Enneagram and Encaustic

Sulky Kathleen

When I was a child, no one was tested for neurodiversity. I’m 60 today; too old now for any doctor to care if I’m on-spectrum. Perhaps I’m only excruciatingly introverted.

With that in mind, I’ve recently reevaluated some of my memories. I’ve always liked this photo, but I can now say this is not just a pouty girl in a toddler’s chair. My mother wrote “Sulky Kathleen” on the back of this picture, and it’s not inaccurate. It is, however, only one description of someone who’s been interrupted while thinking. I love this one-and-a-half year old who takes a mental deep dive into a women’s magazine with a smoking ad on the back cover.

Seahorse Tidepool

If you’re interested in the size of this piece, it gets a mention in a YouTube demonstration I made.

Doomchar Aquarium 3

Here’s the last in the series I began as part of my gaming guild’s art contest. The winners have been declared, and I tied for third place. First place went to someone who created a fabulous, fully functional siege ballista (not to scale, lol). My piece was Elder Scroll-adjacent, at best, and I feel the judging was completely fair. And I really enjoyed creating the Aquariums.

Bubbly water tap pull

On the left is the encaustic I made as a tap pull for the carbonated water line. On the right is the piece coated in epoxy and mounted on the spigot. It was a great first experiment, but I’m already working on an improved version.

Doomchar Aquarium 2

This is the version I entered into my gaming guild’s contest. I can’t say it’s my favorite of the series, but the original screenshot was the clearest and most representative of ESO. We can sort of see the Medusa-like monster outside the glass, which is what I wanted.

Pirate Cove

Lava Aquatic

Doomchar Aquarium 1

One of my guilds is running a contest for an ESO-inspired piece of art. This is my first attempt, something that allowed me to practice perspective. Doomchar is a house you can own in-game. I used a greenhouse as my tableau, posed a screenshot picture, and went from there. I figured, let’s do more undersea fish art! It’s as good a reason as any to be inspired.

Old Glory

Among the Seaweed

The title came last.

This is a repurposed piece that had, once again, faded. Just spitballing, I added dried flowers and leaves to it, but nothing was working. It made me think of undersea life, though, and I went from there. It’s not my greatest fish piece (out of 2 so far, lol), but it was an important step and inspiration.