Category: Encaustic

Finished art, painted with heated wax and other multi-media.

Toreadorable

You may remember my gamer elegy from over three years ago. The Elder Scrolls Online on Playstation was over for me and a new relationship with it on PC was beginning.

So much for what we think we know.

This encaustic painting is from a screenshot of my toon Toreadorable on Playstation NA. (All of my characters on that server are named after some aspect of the musical Gypsy.) It’s a PvP grab. I’m the staff-wielder with a basket of fish on my back.

Yeah, that sounds weird. All I can say is that, in gaming, your avatar can wear things you would never touch in reality, like a bunch of dead fish strapped to your shoulders.

When my gaming laptop died and I had to leave the PC community, it was as sad as it was three years ago to leave Playstation. But I’m back in a place I thought I wouldn’t see again. That first moment when I opened the game on PS and saw my girl Gazes was strangely poignant. I’d forgotten my toon people would be waiting for me like old friends.

Ash Wednesday, 2025

For the past three years I have set a painting per week as my Lenten observance. I’m very proud of this wall in my house where I display all of that work.

However, this year I will be following a private observance. I don’t have any encaustic ideas, and my weekly requirement to produce a painting, regardless of how finished it is, can be exhausting.

May your Lent (and mine) be fruitful.