New Painting: Stoic Poppies in an Earthquake
New Painting: Poppies in a Windstorm
New Painting: Poppies in Blowing Duststorm
Poppies Painting Series
This series was inspired by a split-second view I had from BBC News of poppies growing in a field in Afghanistan — it just showed a couple of pods on stems. I took it from there. As with all my encaustic paintings, there is a depth of beauty to these that has to be seen in person to be appreciated.
More New Work for War-Artists Respond Exhibit
I started this project about a year ago. My idea was to use iconic media images as image transfers encased in wax and tie a number of images together into a large piece. I wanted to pick some of the most recognizable images that I think almost anyone would know; images that said something about how we as a human race treat each other.
I did a couple of them last year to check out the possible process. Then I spent many hours searching mostly online for just the right images.
I came up with a composition that included way too many images at first, then eventually narrowed it down to the most interesting and iconic 25 images, but finally, I eliminated all but nine images for this piece.
I decided to manipulate them digitally to reduce them down even further to their iconic essence, and then I decided to print them as Gicleé prints. After mounting the prints on boards, I painted the whole surface with a single color of encaustic.
Finally, I linked all the images on boards together with chain links.
I got it all done and shot in time to apply to a local show about war — with a good 15 minutes to spare before the deadline!
This is the piece.
New Atomic Bomb Painting: Castle Romeo
New Atomic Bomb Paintings
I had wanted to complete more of my planned large series of atomic bomb paintings done in time to apply to a local show dealing with war. I’ve got only 5 done now, and these last two need a little tweaking, but for now, here they are:
New Work: Grandma was a Stromatolite
Publishing New Works in Encaustic
Our vacation interrupted my rhythm of painting and shooting pictures, and blogging…so here it is late September, and I have finally gotten the paintings I finished before vacation shot, and am just now getting them posted.
This one is a fairly fanciful voyage into creating a third piece to fit in between two of my other recent pieces to create a triptych.
Here’s a small mockup of the triptych:
This piece is a sort of fractal enlargement of a section of my “Behind the Wall” piece; this is called “Grandma was a Stromatolite:”
New Painting: Field of Artists’ Dreams
I seemed to need to do a landscape; this one is called “Field of Artists’ Dreams” and combines fresh encaustic with pretty little patches of paint – little mini-paintings.