Category: Encaustic

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

Sad Cart

I apologize for the lack of encaustic content lately.

My cart, although small-ish and portable, is in a lost corner of the property right now, waiting for a new location. I’m looking for reliable power (the heat gun combined with the griddle that melts the wax are a strong draw) and proper ventilation.

I have all kinds of ideas and can’t wait to get back to work. Please bear with me.

Snail Mail

This is one of the largest encaustics — 10.5″ x 20″ — I’ve done on a wallboard substrate. A piece bigger than this risks cracking from weight.

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.