Moo

Dutch Belt  

8x8 Encaustic on wood panel

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New Life

White Blossoms 8 x 8 Encaustic

This painting used to be this painting. 

Ocean Life

Red Coral  16 x 20 Acrylic on Canvas

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My little one has been into watching dolphin documentaries lately so...  an ocean muse caught me.

Ladybug

10x 10 Encaustic


The Ladybug painting in progress

The Napa Valley

Just back from a refreshing, sun-warmed trip to see my family in the beautiful Napa Valley. These are a few of my favorite pictures.

"faster" she cried





Honeycomb

A Queen's perch

Quality Sister time

Refreshment

Paradigm, the original Red Mare

A first ride

Looking Back

Looking back

8 x 8 inches

So the last month or so I've been working on portraiture. An encaustic face is no easy endeavor I'm finding. There is so much movement during fusing that the features change considerably during the painting process. I'm looking at different fusing methods to see about getting more control, but I don't really want to get too crazy. I'm in love with the journey, and the imperfections that happen, so I'm going to keep on playing. 

In other news I had a piece accepted to the Whitefish Literary Review which comes out this summer. I'm pretty excited about it because I've heard it will include a short story by one of my favorite authors. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say who so I'll keep you guessing about it for a while, but I'll most likely put up a post about it in June. Happy Spring everyone!

New R & F encaustic paints

Warm colors came in the mail today :)

Blue Fan Flower

Blue Fan Flowers 

8 x 8 Encaustic

I've been enjoying this sunny little painting so much I just had to re-post it now that I've fixed the blog to allow for bigger pictures. It's been a rough week for working in the studio. My little one has had a horrid flu and needed constant care and lots of mama comfort. I'm itching to get back into it...  right now my head is full of ideas for paintings I want to submit to the next Whitefish Review, a very cool local literary journal.

Work in Progress

Work in Progress 10 x 10 Encaustic

Blue Flowered Bud Vase

Blue Flowered Bud Vase
8 x 10
Encaustic


I'm going to be making some layout changes to this blog this weekend.
So if you stop in and it looks a little strange that's what's up :)