My Useless Studio Assistant....

...thinks he can cut it as a model, while I pick fur out of the encaustic. Or maybe he's just trying to reclaim the couch. Maybe that sort of snootiness comes from watching the recent royal wedding. He is elegant in his own way, I suppose....



Updated ...

the idea of Shorty relaxing by someone's feet is really pretty amusing...

Hanna Broken and Sublime

I've been off for a few days, dring to get this one done. It was supposed to just take a day or two! The best laid plans....
Encaustic on canvas, 24x36



Quite an enjoyable exercise. Hanna had been curious about encaustics; so we took advantage of her broken wrist (which has been keeping her off her regular job) to pile into this one. It's been a number of years since I did a large one, and I had forgotten how enjoyable it is. Much more pleasant than oils! An added bonus was listening to her collection of music (we've run through most of mine), which included a new-to-me group called Sublime. When she first mentionned them, I thought someone was setting Edmund Burke to music? I have sort of a disconnect from modern culture, I guess....

Hanna Broken II

We've decided to give encaustics a try - it's been several years since I did one. But the first order of business is to get a sketch together, which is here:



It's even sketchier than usual, and there's a lot of odds and ends (like the left arm) that need to be corrected at the start of the encaustics stage. But it's hard resist the perfume of damar and beeswax....