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Here I talk about making art including all the lessons learned, in and out of the classroom.
Building an Encaustic Monotype Box
All I needed to make Encaustic Monotypes was a large heated sheet of anodized aluminum; sounds simple doesn’t it?
Encaustic Ink Burn
While attempting to perfect encaustic shellac-burns, I discovered I can create a similar effect by just burning India Ink.
Encaustic Homework
Nancy's eCourse: If you follow my blog you know I've been taking an eCourse taught by Nancy Crawford. Her course includes design, encaustic prep work and techniques. In particular she wanted us to demonstration encaustic accretion,incising, color field,...
Encaustic Polyptychs
Polyptych? When I first started working a little larger I found it almost natural to want to connect two or three small panels together to create a larger surface. The concept of multiple panels is not new. In the early Middle Ages such panels were held together by...
Encaustic Studio Upgrades
What's been happening: If you haven't seen much from me in the last two weeks it is because we've been redoing my studio. I felt I needed more space as I'm beginning to work on larger pieces (see Nebula below) AND the clutter was getting to me. It seemed...
Encaustic with Stencils
We are just back from a road trip to Texas (next time I'm taking my palette and some wax with me, two weeks is just too long to be out of the studio) where I bought a couple of new stencils at Jerry's Artarama in Austin. For me, encaustic is often about textures and I...
Encaustic Glue Burn
I love to experiment: As you might remember, I take an Encaustic Class at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center. In addition to tuition, we pay a lab fee which covers the use of various materials, tools, and gives each of us one 10" square 1/2" sheet...
Encaustic Texture
It's been almost a month since my last post. Part of that time I was in Florida enjoying warm weather and seeing lots of tropical landscape. One day we went out on a Daisy Walk to hike and cruise while photographing the biota of Central Florida....
Welcome to My Blog!
Encaustics! I am seduced by color, by texture, by the glow you get when rub a finished piece. I've only recently set up an encaustic studio in my home. I've played around a little bit for several years now and, finally, I'm taking the plunge. I want to record things...
Hi Dana! I was wondering when you were planning to do another acrylic pour workshop. I have a couple people that are interested in going and they would kind of like a Tuesday night class if possible. Thanks!
Oops – sorry, just saw this. Please follow my instagram #DanaFrostGrubbe for latest updates. Here is the schedule for the rest of the year:
Aug 22nd (Thurs), Sept 10 (Tues), Oct 8 (Tues), Oct 23 (Wed), Nov 4 (Mon), Nov 7 (Thur), Dec 10 (Tues).