Pastel on Gator Board, 27” x 15”, 2011
I don’t know if this piece is “finished” or not - I’m ready to put it away for awhile. The support is very rough multiple applications of pumice gel on gator board. Getting used to the texture of the surface was a challenge that became an interesting opportunity to relax and allow the support to interact and participate in forming the image.
Bad Hair Day
Pastel on board, 16” x 20”, 2011This chicken totally cracked me up!
Memory Painting
Pastel, 12” x 16”, 2011Today’s twenty-minute memory painting of last Friday’s expedition for photographs. Twenty-four degrees riding in the open air. Birds, sun and good company. Can’t get better than that.
Palette
Today was a bust in the studio as far as painting. The extra piles of gray on the far right are the residue from a scraped canvas. I decided to prep the palette as Daniel Greene encourages and it was enough of a success for today.
Sun
Great day of drawing in the chilly sunshine. The tree looks like a haughty turn of the twentieth century old lady with a wasp waste and lavishly feathered hat. I think if the sun’s going to shine the light should come with an automatic seventy degrees attached, however, as they say - we’ll take what we can get.
Encaustic Experiment
Encaustic, 8”x8”, 2011Douglas Colyer
After three aborted drawings made the trash bin today, I had a creative breakdown and went to pick up some of the basics for encaustic. If any of the beeswax pros look too closely they’ll see a myriad of technical errors, however, I had a blast and after the frustrating studio day it was either this or chocolate.
The piece comes close to what I envisioned. Intuition said stop one layer earlier yet this version is still satisfying for a first timer. I enjoy the result of pushing the hot wax to create texture on the surface.