Quilts and Color

by | Apr 14, 2014 | blog

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...

Please come to my show opening: March 8, 6-9pm

by | Mar 2, 2014 | blog

“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...

The Way Things Go

by | Feb 2, 2014 | blog

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...

Painting a shark

by | Jan 24, 2014 | blog

                    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

by | Jan 14, 2014 | blog

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...