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I thought I would try highlighting one of my collages in honor of the change of the seasons...
I found this great link to play with.
http://www.slide.com/arrange

Enjoy The Fall....I believe it is my favorite time of the year...

The Offering

The Offering.... really a gift to myself.




I love the ongoing process of maing and remaking an encaustic piece.

Here is the evolution of this encaustic painting. It has changed dramatically.

I love adding lavender and other dried flowers to my pieces. She came out of nowhere just like the images that come through when creating art.

Window and Wine

Window and Wine
Originally uploaded by blue_sea_art

I have my encaustic paintings in a small arts and crafts gallery in Healdsburg Calif...called ART & ALL THAT JAZZ....

I decided to play around with the wine imagery...and created a series of small encaustics on 4"x4" clayboard...here is one of them

MORE Encaustics... from Exploration Day...

I love witnessing the process and what evolves for people. The medium itself provides a wonderful context for imagery and exploration... Here are more encaustics done at last weekends encaustic exploration days.






I plan on doing another weekend workshop the first weekend in Oct. Now its time for me to get back in the studio again myself....

Weekend Encaustic Class.....

What a stimulating and engaging weekend.




I facilitated an all Day Encaustic Exploration Class and then the next day an Encaustic Open Studio day at my studio.












Here are some photos of the studio and some photos of what folks created.

More process and More Encaustics...

Summer Solstice Animal Spirit Mandalas..

Summertime busy ness has prevented me from posting much this summer..



Here are just a few photos of the mandalas began at the Connecting with Animal Spirits Mandala Workshop


Patricia Waters and myself facilitated this Illuminated Mandala Retreat day at Mountain Home Ranch....
right around the time of the Summer Solstice.



Although most of these images were not finished that day...


they are well on there way to being stunning...

Encaustic Exploration Day...

I haven't posted lately because I was preoccupied with preparing to present my first ever encaustic Exploration DAy..
Although I was worried about all the details and even with blowing all the electrical circuits in the studio, early in the morning, the day was exciting and productive for everyone who attended.

Here are some photos of the days process













These 3 encaustics are what I did during the day.