Today I launched into my encaustic journey and I'm hooked already. Here are my first pieces - the first has imbedded pieces of plant life which was fun to do, but I think I prefer the second one - it just seems more spontaneous.
Saturday, 5 March 2011
My First Encaustic Paintings
It's taken ages to get all my equipment together - we here in the UK really are the poor cousins of the US, I can never easily find art supplies that are a bit more than oils, watrcolours and acrylics.
Today I launched into my encaustic journey and I'm hooked already. Here are my first pieces - the first has imbedded pieces of plant life which was fun to do, but I think I prefer the second one - it just seems more spontaneous.
Today I launched into my encaustic journey and I'm hooked already. Here are my first pieces - the first has imbedded pieces of plant life which was fun to do, but I think I prefer the second one - it just seems more spontaneous.
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How interesting...differnt canvasses and different styles. I like your bright palette very much!!
ReplyDelete(I could not get resin, so I bought some ready mixed paint blocks. My colours are very dull by comparison, But I have not started yet. I think encaustics is all about embedding.
Sue xx
Sue xx
I am particularly interested in the second piece. Lovely!
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