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Quilts and Color
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a show titled "Quilts and Color" (check it out by clicking this link....http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/quilts-and-color). The quilts looks surprisingly modern as you can see from my two examples below. The first was made in 1879;the...
Please come to my show opening: March 8, 6-9pm
"From Suffrage to Secretary of State” March 5 - April 6, 2014 Studio 5 Gallery , Workhouse Arts Center, 9601 Ox Road, Lorton Virginia Gallery and StudioWednesday-Saturday 11am-6pmSunday 12-5pm "Malala and Maria", encaustic (with crystals and vintage glass...
Laura E Bruce
Check out the Artist Laura E Bruce's new responsive website. Isn't her work wonderful!
The Way Things Go
Did you ever play the game "Mouse Trap" as a child? Then you might like Fischli/Weiss's film titled "The Way things Go"...a film about one object falling into another,a vast chain of events with fireworks. ( I have been reading a book titled 'What Are You Looking At?...
Painting a shark
Today was a good day to paint a shark in encaustic. I created that interesting shark skin texture by painting wax through a stencil, which left a series of raised circles. Once the texture was done,...
new work
Hi everyone! I am working on a new large painting today. How did I get that texture, the grid like lines in the orange area, you ask? I began by painting a layer of grey, fusing it, and then painting orange over this layer. Then I used a metal tool to scrape out the...