Saturday, March 26, 2011

Encaustics

Playing with crayons.

"Banks of Green Willow" - 2010, mixed media on driftwood.


Image from an Anglo-American Jonah ballad of an innocent young woman who is cast into the sea by her lover (a sea captain) because he can not bear the shame of her bearing an illegitimate child. I wanted to be thrifty by chopping up and re-configuring my bad figure drawings. Technically, it's a collage, but there is enough wax in the wood to constitute an encaustic.

"Leach" - 2009, encaustic on driftwood.


Sold at "A Night Out for Haiti - Benefit & Art Auction" - April 2010


"Ceres" - 2009


Untitled -2009