Oct 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
Oct 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
Sep 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
Sep 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
Jan 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
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 might loose everything with a Cat 5...
Oct 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
