Workshop Demo painting

I promised I would let my workshop participants see the work I started on the last day with a cadmium yellow ground. This painting bears little resemblance to what it looked like yesterday. That is me… I go with the mood of the day. SO what is the mood of the...

Artist’s Showplace workshop report

no images were found I’m not sure I’m really ready to make a report on my first ever 4 day workshop…………..but ready or not, I will. As mentioned at one point earlier, I felt like I’d jumped off a bridge when I agreed to do a...

Oil and cold wax medium

Some time back I was in the shop picking up canvas and wood panels when I saw some small 8 x 10 x 1.5 inch stretched canvases laying out on a table for a very good price. I decided they would be great for trying out oil and cold wax medium paintings so I took them...

Interstices and Intervals

For a long time now I’ve realized that my most successful (to me) paintings are those that address the painting of the negative or spaces between. Today, I got up to the studio for two things………to address the interstices in my paintings more...

Counting down to THE Encaustic Conference

Counting down the days until the 5th Annual Encaustic Conference………..only about 16 to go before heading off to Dallas to be prepared for the flight out to Boston and then on to Provincetown. I’ve never been so this will be especially fun this...