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I’ve been eagerly awaiting the encaustic conference I’m attending in June and behold it’s almost here! This is the 2nd annual conference at the Montserrat School of Art in Boston and this year there are over 200 artists attending. It’s an intensive 2 day event in which I’ve registered for many seminars from some great artists. These span working large to packing and shipping encaustic art. If your interested in more information about it you can visit the website at http://montserratencausticconference.blogspot.com
The director of the event is none other than Joanne Mattera.
I’ll be giving a full report after the trip.
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Just found out this morning that this piece titled “72″ made it into the monthly juried exhibition at the Atlanta Artists Center! I thought that this piece would be perfect for an exhibit titled “Abstractions Of Life”. I sometimes feel like my entire life is an abstraction! I strive to have movement and expression in my art, this piece really does that for me. My husband took the original photos and I then took pieces of those photos and created the collage. The “floating” shapes are actually printed on a transparency and placed between layers of the beeswax. I also added color using oil pastels.
Photo encaustics really take alot of manual work because the layers of wax have to be super thin in order to get optimum clarity in the image. To achieve this the wax has to be scraped down as close to the image as possible using a paint scraper. I recently found that the paint scraper that came with my heat gun works the best for me. I have to give myself a break from the photo work every now and then to give my hands a break!
Right now I’m working on a very abstract piece with globs of wax. It’s almost finished, look for it to show up here next!
