Autumn

Autumn 8 x 10 Encaustic

Fall in the Flathead Valley is a beautiful time. The fields are dotted with huge round haybales.  The aspen and then the larch trees turn blazing yellows and oranges... and everywhere you go the crisp breeze seems to be whispering in your ear, "get ready, work work work, get'r done!" because winter is coming.

This particular painting isn't really of the Flathead Valley. It's more of a memory of Pullman and the Palouse hills, mixed with the tree-lined, hay fields right down the road from my home.

Heliopsis

Heliopsis  8 x 8 Encaustic on Wood
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Entrance

Entrance       8 x 10     Encaustic on Wood

I am deliberating whether to include the Anthropologieland series in my upcoming show at the Persimmon gallery... they are landscapes, but quite different from the other vein I am working in because they are more about the act of mark making and layering. They do look quite lovely all polished and framed up now... so if there is a place for them they might appear in the show.

Visiting Anthropologieland Again

Window Shopping     8 x 10     Encaustic on Panel

Inspiration

    Evening on Whitefish Lake

 

 Throwing rocks into Lake Macdonald

 

 Storm coming through the neighborhood

 Near Schnauss cabin

 Looking into Glacier Park

 Dusk, North Fork Flathead River

Morning mists south of Polebridge

Sneak Peek

  

Battleground  8 x 8  Encaustic on wood

Broken Tracks  8x8   Encaustic on wood (close up)

 

  Follow Me  8 x 8 Encaustic on wood

These pictures are a little sneak peek into my preparation 

for a show at the beautiful Persimmon Gallery

in Bigfork, MT.  The show will be opening during 

Last Friday Artwalk on October 28th

Foxy Commission

"The San Juan Foxes went to Sea"            Acrylic on wood panel                 11 x 14 in.

I just finished this little commission for a baby that is due this October. This baby is very lucky because his daddy is a wonderful banjo player and his mamma is sweet and creative and makes beautiful jewelry and his grandparents have a most wondrous boat named Hanna.

The moon and stars are painted over with glow in the dark paint. I love using the glow in the dark paint for nursery art because it comes in handy for the parents when a little distraction is needed to forget some tears, and for the little one it can be something fun to look forward to seeing when it's nighty night time.

I want to go to...

Desire, Anthropologieland Series

Encaustic layers with embedded Anthropologie tissue

8 x 10

Confession: I probably browse the Anthropologie website three or four times a week.. ok maybe like, eight times...  I've got it under control, I rarely buy anything, but I'd probably get into deep trouble if I lived near an actual store. Of course I love the expensive stuff the most! This couch figures prominently in my "if I won the lotto and bought a modest apartment in Paris" day dreams...  

Head in the Clouds

Cloud 

8 x 8 

Encaustic

OK I've been really geeking out on clouds lately, did you know there is a Cloud Appreciation Society? How awesome is the internet!

Scraping back to the good stuff

Lets Go Fly a Kite  

8 x 8 

Encaustic and Mixed Media
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This was a particularly dreadful piece I had hanging around. I've been laying the paint on thick, a bit too thick in some cases, but this is a constant learning process, so that's alright. I was thinking how I wanted to rewind, you know, go back to where my vision went off course, so I went back, you can do that with encaustics! Pull off layer after layer. First I let Jolie have her way with it, gouging out deep gaps, which were then filled back in. Then we scraped and scraped and scraped, almost all the way back to the beginning. Then a few lustrous coats of translucence and an ochre wash to bring pieces of lost ideas back into being. Now I love it.