Category: Encaustic

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

Poinsettia over Poinsettia

Remember last year’s poinsettia piece? It was a redo of a previous, failed encaustic. Well, it’s been redone again. The original poinsettia faded to white and turned brittle. Remnants of the old plant can be seen underneath the new leaves here.

I liked that former piece, but I’m learning the behavior of organic material in wax. Moisture doesn’t age well.

I won’t list all the possible metaphors this piece suggests, lol.

Mum on a Pig

This is another repurposed piece, with the mum added to a finished encaustic. Hilariously, I never published the pig (below), although I thought I had. (I’m busy looking through the archives this morning so I can link to a post that doesn’t exist . . . lol.)

Well, he’s a good boi, but I didn’t do him justice, and now he’s under a flower.

Orange Blossom

This is a piece I started last spring before my summer hiatus. When I came back to it a few weeks ago, the leaves had gone white and were brittle and dry. I just broke the pieces off, really, and left the leaf bits that were still stuck. 

The flowers themselves you can hardly see. They weren’t very big to begin with, but there they are. I haven’t really done anything new to them.

However, these are fresh orange leaves. I didn’t iron or press them or anything. They just sat on the table for a day so they weren’t quite as . . .  juicy. I waxed them down and pressed every bit of air out of them, even cracking them or ripping them so they’d lay flat. We know that these leaves will go white over time.

I’ve doctored them, though. They have some green oil paint on the wax, and a lot of india ink, which is my new favorite thing. So, we’ll check back in a few months and see how it’s aged.