Holy mackerel, I finally got to work on some art yesterday! It has been about 11 months since I last worked on anything, as this blog post indicates. It was for a show in Portland last spring, before Emma was born.
So Lonnie took Emma and tried to get her to nap yesterday afternoon, while I worked, but instead she wailed for me for a couple hours, on and off. When is this kid going to chill out about this!? She does fine when I actually leave the house so next time I am going to say goodbye and walk out the front door, and come around the back and into my studio. We are going to try to do it every Sunday, and I am NOT going to let myself do chores or internet surfing instead. In the hour and a half that I spent in my studio, I was able to clean up about 10 months worth of clutter that had piled on my workstation and started a new piece:
It is made up off all my scrapings from other encaustics over the past few years. Kind of like the old crayon shaving/wax paper/iron trick, only I used encaustic scrapings and a propane torch instead. It was fun to see all the colors melt and blend. Its not done yet, not sure what I will do next with it.
