Earthly Delights 2 Painting

This series is inspired by working with Alicia Tormey, who works with the lacy effects of using burnt shellac, both natural and pigmented.This is a companion piece to Earthly Remains 1. Although these are abstract pictures, each one might suggest the swirling, overlapping areas in a natural phenomenon, such as an earthquake, or volcano erupting, or a stormy sky. Or it might be merely shapes, lines, and colors to another’s eye. I used the ancient painting technique of encaustic, which means to “burn in.” Encaustic was used as far back as the 5th C. BC on ships’ hulls to decorate and preserve the wood. First, I painted the surface of this wood platform with white tinted gesso to create a smooth and bright surface for the wax. Then I applied layers of hot beeswax mixed with a hardening agent called damar resin. Then I heat each layer with a heat gun or torch to adhere it to the layer beneath it. For this piece and Earthly Remains Two, I also applied black and red ochre pigmented shellac (made with dry pigment mixed and clear shellac), then painted it on the wax surface. When “ripe” enough to fuse, I heated with torch to create these filigree marks. There are also marks drawn with India ink and personally whittled stick. The colors of black, white, and red is a favorite palette of mine. Ready to hang in deep frame with gold background and gold front edges.

Painting:Wax on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:10 W x 10 H x 2 D in

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