Help me decide which one to go with! I'm not going to all three, but I'd appreciate your help narrowing it down!
TTYL!
6.25.2010
Help!
After coming to the sad conclusion that an original design for a mold to make multiple plaster casts wouldn't work, I've redone a few.
Help me decide which one to go with! I'm not going to all three, but I'd appreciate your help narrowing it down!
TTYL!
Help me decide which one to go with! I'm not going to all three, but I'd appreciate your help narrowing it down!
TTYL!
Encaustics!
Yesterday, a handful of co-workers from Wet Paint and I met up at local artist Jeff Hirst's studio to learn how to use encaustic paint.
Encaustic paint's been around for about 3000 years, but is enjoying an upswing in popularity right about now.
We started met up at Jeff's studio in Northeast Minneapolis- he had prepared six spots, where we shared 3 griddles.
Here are two dollops (?) of cadmium yellow and alizarin crimson. The paint is melted onto the tray directly from a brick of solid wax at 180 degrees!
Very quickly, things got messy. Here's my palette. If the brushes were off the hot plate for a minute, they'd harden as fast as wax cools.
Just another shot of the workspace.
My co-worker Jill is applying oil paint to scratched off parts of the wax. When she wipes away the excess, and fuses the wax with some creme-brule torches,it'll provide a nice solid outline.
This was my first piece. I decided to emulate Fayum mummy portraits, to varying degrees of success.
I entitled this one "Yellow And Green Romantically Pursue Blue As Orange Cries Bitter Tears."
I call him "Snuggles." This one was very popular with my co-workers.
The chinese here says "It'll never end unless the world ends." A bit of dark philosophy I translated into Chinese with the help of Google Translate. The accompanying illustration is a LEGO man getting destroyed. The background plays with some textured paper trapped and burned under wax.
Last one of the workshop for me. I had 5 minutes before we had to start cleaning up.
From another angle, you can see how textured this paint is. Lots of layers built up!
In a bit of other news, I helped paint this photo-op flat for a family friend's (pictured) daughters (not pictured) grad-night lock-in. I actually painted his a month a go, but I figure that now I can reveal it, since the lock-in is long done.
The fjords of Norway with the aurora borealis...
TTYL!
Encaustic paint's been around for about 3000 years, but is enjoying an upswing in popularity right about now.
We started met up at Jeff's studio in Northeast Minneapolis- he had prepared six spots, where we shared 3 griddles.
Here are two dollops (?) of cadmium yellow and alizarin crimson. The paint is melted onto the tray directly from a brick of solid wax at 180 degrees!
Very quickly, things got messy. Here's my palette. If the brushes were off the hot plate for a minute, they'd harden as fast as wax cools.
Just another shot of the workspace.
My co-worker Jill is applying oil paint to scratched off parts of the wax. When she wipes away the excess, and fuses the wax with some creme-brule torches,it'll provide a nice solid outline.
This was my first piece. I decided to emulate Fayum mummy portraits, to varying degrees of success.
I entitled this one "Yellow And Green Romantically Pursue Blue As Orange Cries Bitter Tears."
I call him "Snuggles." This one was very popular with my co-workers.
The chinese here says "It'll never end unless the world ends." A bit of dark philosophy I translated into Chinese with the help of Google Translate. The accompanying illustration is a LEGO man getting destroyed. The background plays with some textured paper trapped and burned under wax.
Last one of the workshop for me. I had 5 minutes before we had to start cleaning up.
From another angle, you can see how textured this paint is. Lots of layers built up!
In a bit of other news, I helped paint this photo-op flat for a family friend's (pictured) daughters (not pictured) grad-night lock-in. I actually painted his a month a go, but I figure that now I can reveal it, since the lock-in is long done.
The fjords of Norway with the aurora borealis...
TTYL!
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