Today I went into the studio, planning on making some more medium. But something else happened. I had this piece that I was scraping away the wax from, which had 2 previous totally different lives and identities. I decided to play with contrasting colors and see what happened. Using 2 different transfers from old lithographs, and cheesecloth, the Bird and the Butterfly came to visit, or rather live. I am getting simpler in my work, after having been very textured and elaborate in my earlier encaustic work. This piece highlights the luminosity of the colors, which is one of the things I love, love love about encaustic paint. The cheese cloth dipped and saturated in encaustic medium, and painted over with encaustic paint, does something incredible to the piece.
It appears I am onto a new direction once again, after falling in love with blending colors and photo transfer I am now feeling braver about adding texture. What a satisfying day.
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