Making Shapes in Wax
It has been a long time since I have made shapes with wax. So I started with making spheres or half spheres with balloons. Well the balloons exploded and instead of creating shapes, I vaporized the wax and basically coated the entire studio and myself with aerosol...
Value is just not about $$$$
So many times when I am teaching encaustic, students forget about using value in their paintings. I think that is what happens when we see all the encaustic colors, melt them in their respective paint pots and never have them mix together. We don't melt a pot of black...
Encaustic Paint Supplies…
I live in an Encaustic wasteland. Yep- I have to drive down to Miami or order online for supplies. I don't mind the drive- but that art supply store only carries the smaller cakes of RF paints that I use, or they are out of stock. So instead of wasting time, I have to...
My business was not immune to Covid19
2020 started for me with a major surgery. But things started the year before. All of 2019 I was trying to get in shape and joined a semi-private group training gym in Oct 2018. I was trying every diet and doing everything possible to lose weight, get healthy and get...
Another New Year and New Idea- or How a Hurricane changed my art voice
Well my last post, I talked about the Jewish New Year and turning 55 and finding my voice as an artist. Well, what I failed to mention was that Hurricane Irma arrived on my birthday. It was the first time that I realized that I...
New Year (sort of) and new ideas
It has been too long since my last post. So much has been going on. You know life just gets in the way. Even though I am self employed, people do not realize all that it takes. So sometimes the studio and art making just does not happen. But the Jewish New Year landed...
My Email Inbox is out of control!
Yep, my email inbox is on steroids. I use Go Daddy for my personal email and do not love their dashboard so much, but that is irrelevant…
New Series – a departure from what I normally do.
I have been very disturbed about the gun violence in America. So much so that I decided to paint about it. At first I wanted to make an installation…
Don’t Paint Yourself into a Corner
Yep, this can happen sometimes. When I entered the world of Instagram I realized that this was happening to many artists. So what do I do? I make a video.