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 | Jul 1, 2017 | Encaustic Monotypes, Encaustic Studio, Technical
When I was in Tucson a few months ago, I stopped at Miles Conrad’s Encaustic store where I purchased Paula Roland’s Encaustic Monotypes DVD. I love Paula’s monotypes. Her works are inspirational. Ideally, I wanted a heated...
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 | Apr 10, 2017 | Art Practices, Encaustic Studio
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...
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...
by Dana | Mar 11, 2017 | Encaustic Techniques, My Blog
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...
by Dana | Mar 4, 2017 | Encaustic Techniques
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...
by Dana | Dec 7, 2016 | Personal
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...
