Somewhere, Nowhere

Somewhere, Nowhere

8 x 10

Encaustic on wood

A way of life that is sadly, slowly fading away here in our beautiful valley.

Little Landscape

Purple Mountains 

8 x 10 

Encaustic on Wood Panel

Storm Coming In

 "Storm Coming In"

8 x 10

Encaustic on panel

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We've had a few little spring rainstorms lately... I love this time of year, the thunder shaking the house puts nervous grins on our faces and the garden gets a good soaking regularly.

Speaking of the garden... I decided to enter my humble veggie jungle in the Whitefish Garden Tour this year and will  have my art studio open for the tour as well. I've never really hosted a studio tour, or garden tour for that matter so it should be fun.  I bet it will be just the motivation needed for me to get my place ship shape and not get too lazy with the weeding. So buy a map (proceeds go to charity) and come on by July 23 11:00 - 3:00.

Seven Sisters (reworked to be stripey and turquoisey)

 Seven Sisters

8 x 10 Encaustic

There are getting to be so many White Flowers in this Cut Flowers Series. It's either title them all White Flowers I, II, III... or get creative. I could use a little stretching in the naming department so I think tonight I'm going to do some thinking, some sketching, draw up some lists... some pondering might happen... maybe some musing... we'll see

 

Two Nudes

Sitting Nude

8 x 8

Encaustic

I've been doing a few nude studies this week... and yes, a rather big fusing error happened in the poor woman's thigh area. I'm working up the gumption to attempt a fix when I have the time... later...  this blue background one I like though, framed her up in a lovely black and gold.

Sitting Nude II

8 x 10 

Encaustic

In The Deep

In the Deep

8 x 8 encaustic

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I don't know that anyone will really like this piece so I might keep it for myself... In fact it was a different piece, a vineyard that I had tried to get to march over a hill but the vines just would not behave.  I was letting Jolie scrape the wax back for me when I saw another possibility, a memory of waiting for the ferry in Anacortes and an even more distant memory of April Point and a time spent  listening to an old Uncle's sad stories, and observing the water life there.

6/14/11 Update, Just for you Diane and Sara :)  Here is a photo of the original piece I decided to scrap, you can still see certain elements that didn't get all the way scraped out in the finished piece.

Sunny Day

The Proud Sunflower

12 x 16

Encaustic on Panel

Finally this weekend we had a lovely bit of sun and warm temps around here. The volunteer sunflowers started popping up everywhere, thick as thieves. My favorite thing about the garden is watching those teensy little sprouts grow into proud and graceful giants.

This piece took me a few weeks to work out. There are no oil washes in this one, just layer after layer of fused encaustic paint, which gives it a cool, rustic look I think. I'm debating as to whether I want to give it a final oil stain to deepen it up even more, but I haven't decided if it needs it yet...  Some paintings are just done when they're done. Others require lots of sitting in my favorite chair with a steaming mug of peppermint tea (to get the little grey cells going) and staring staring staring... it can go on for days...

Feeling Circus like

White Flowers in a Spotted Vase

8 x 10 Encaustic on wood panel

Hmm... I had a hard time capturing the real colors in this one. I reeeely need to build that lightbox that has been on my big long studio to do list forever. The reds are slightly orangey-er in real life and it's quickly become one of my favorites to sit and stare at because it has this great big-top vibe.

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.