by Dana | Aug 25, 2018 | Art Show, Furnishing a studio, My Blog, Painter's Studio
A little over six weeks ago I rented a studio at 400 West Rich, an artist enclave. That first Friday, I opened my doors as part of the Franklinton Fridays (FF) happenings and got to meet some of the tenants in the building and lots of people passing-by. The next...
by Dana | Jun 15, 2018 | My Blog
It’s been a while and I’ve been super busy and could have written any number of blogs over the last six-weeks; instead I’ll just catch you up. At the end of May I picked up my unsold paintings from their two-month show at Art@43023. Mid-May I went to...
by Dana | Mar 29, 2018 | Encaustic Creation, Encaustic Monotypes, My Blog, Working Large, Working Small
Last week I completed my New Year’s Resolution to update my website. When I created this site last year, I was only working in encaustic; but now, I’m also making encaustic monotypes and paintings created with oil & cold wax (OCW). It seemed silly...
by Dana | Mar 13, 2018 | My Blog
Welcome to my blog! Here I talk about making art including all the lessons learned, in and out of the classroom. Website Update! Mar 29, 2018 | Encaustic Creation, Encaustic Monotypes, My Blog, Working Large, Working SmallA new look for my art and my blog. read more A...
by Dana | Aug 31, 2017 | My Blog
What happened to August? That month just sped along… it started off with my helping to hang the Hot Wax / Cool Art show at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center and it finished this morning when I picked up only one of my pieces. “Nebula,” my favorite,...
by Dana | May 6, 2017 | Encaustic Creation, Encaustic Techniques, My Blog
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,...