This has been such a great workshop - I am at home and crashing after this blogpost...it's amazing how much energy goes into either teaching or attending a painting workshop...Now I am just getting ready to organize my notes with my digital photos. First the digital camera, later the iPhone with its camera have enhanced art workshops greatly because, as artists, we're visual creatures, and we can take a photo to help with retention of our notes - the camera is just invaluable for workshops I take.
Deliberately setting Art on Fire!
Linda says, "When the art is not working, do something more to the artwork - you may end up with a piece that's better than you ever expected!" Well, this technique is for all those encaustic pieces that you kept doing something more, and NOTHING worked. This technique "puts the piece back in the game!" You use shellac and brush it randomly onto parts of the painting and then you really, truly, set it on FIRE.
You do this OUTSIDE on concrete.
I never got around to trying this technique in last spring's workshop (not because all my pieces were working...) , but I did try it today. I had a piece that really qualified...and it worked! The shellac creates really wonderful effects and I got all energized and starting painting again...
"On Fire"
Encaustic 10x12"
Shellac, encaustic paint, pressing designs into the hot wax, using one of my French textile stamps from the antique market in Paris, and oil glazing. I also got some great texture from old kitchen tools that I've picked up at local antique malls. I could just go on and on and on...what great fun!
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