Art History connections to Art Lessons

 

Student work drawn on canvas art bags

 and inspired by the work of:

Jim Dine

More encaustic processes: Twilight's last gleaming

 

More encaustic processes: Dawn's early light

 

More encaustic processes: The ramparts we watched

 

Collections for Inspiration

 

Vintage buttons, lace, metal findings, 

cloth flowers, iris pods, driftwood, stamps, 

Victorian beadwork, trims, pincushions, 

scraps of my watercolors, cyanotypes, scratchboard, 

handmade papers, silk embroidery, dried flowers,

 fabric scraps, old quilts, milliners flowers, 

letter stencils, old engravings.

Encaustic with Wax resist

 

Hung out to dry today

Hand dyed, drying, and almost ready to cut.

I love looking at these pieces 

 drying outside on the clothesline.

The dye table

Wax resist

Shibori

 

Steps in the creating of an encaustic painting

Using the shibori method I create 

with indigo dye. It is waiting to be painted into.

Adding the first layer, hiding some areas and

highlighting others.

More layers of color bring out shapes and lines

to be emphasized.

From Completing to Exhibiting

Encaustic in the studio to.......

My encaustics exhibited at an art show at

 The Hive in North Kingston, RI.

Encaustic and Shibori Process

 

The beautiful Japanese art of folded 

and dyed  fabric combined with

 lace and wax resist.

The same piece painted with yellow dye. 

A stamp is used to add more pattern.

A closeup of a smaller piece 

suggesting a landscape.