About a year ago I began experimenting again with encaustic medium-- a mix of beeswax and damar resin. I had first used it in university but decided to learn more and take a workshop with encaustic and mixed media artist, Andrea Bird. The workshop resulted in transforming my working process from mixed media and acrylic painting to one of wax, oil paint and heat. It offers the texture that I love and a luminescent quality that I have yet to see in any other medium. I can continue to incorporate collage as well as scratch and scrape into the surface, transfer images and add oil stick to enhance the rich colour quality. Every layer is fused with a blow torch or heat gun. Even this can produce inspiring results.
The paintings in the slide show below are from this year's body of work.
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