Went to a killer workshop in Telluride a couple of weeks ago (before the snow started flying) to learn from Shawna Moore (encaustic artist extraordinaire) and Rebecca Crowell (incredible cold wax artist). I have been admiring their work for quite some time and was thrilled when I found out they were coming to Colorado!

I was so enthused that I came home from the workshop with 10 new paintings! This is one of them. It's encaustic (hot wax) and it told me it wanted to be soothing. Lots of cool colors with depth.

I'm heading to the studio right now to create more encaustics!!

Fun with Wax!

It's been so cold here lately, I've decided to play with fire! Well, actually a blow torch and wax. I had some wooden cradled boards made and then made a plan of attack. My goal was to create large, simple abstracts that look more like wood than paintings. hmmm. Some did, others looked more like big blankets. I'm OK with that because for me encaustics (painting with a hot beeswax and resin with oil pigments) is all about letting go of expectations. Let's face it, you really can't have too many (expectations about the final outcome, that is) when your blowing hot wax around with a torch!

So, here are a couple my creations. Let me know what you think! And in the meantime, have a grand day!