by Dana | Mar 7, 2019 | Art Galleries, Encaustic Creation, Encaustic Monotypes, Encaustic Techniques, Gold Leaf, Museums, My Blog, Shellac Burn
ABOUT THE MUSEUM Readers of my blog will remember that last fall Bev Goldie and I went to Santa Fe for the Encaustic Expo. Part of the activities was a show at the Museum of Encaustic Art in downtown Santa Fe on Agua Fria Street (bottom photo on left). If you click...
by Dana | Jul 29, 2017 | Encaustic Creation, Encaustic Techniques, India Ink
What to call it? Today, Bev Goldie taught a workshop on “paper-making.” We weren’t actually making paper but using inks, stencils, wax, and watercolor on Japanese mulberry paper. The goal is to incorporate these papers...
by Dana | Jun 1, 2017 | Encaustic Techniques, India Ink, Shellac Burn
Learning to do a shellac burn: I’ve been doing some experiments this week figuring out how to do an encaustic shellac burn that gives me what some call a ‘lacey surface’ ala Alicia Tormey. There’s an old saying that you either have time or...
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,...
by Dana | Apr 21, 2017 | Encaustic Creation, Encaustic Techniques
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...
by Dana | Mar 26, 2017 | Encaustic Techniques
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...
