new colors, new paintings

I'm rushing to get some work done in studio with some new colors I got from Sinopia (namely the yummy reds and yellows you see in this piece).  My schedule is suddenly filling up very quickly and I'm afraid I won't be able to get back to studio for a while, so there's this artistic urgency.  Here is something new I think I'm done with - as soon as I say  a thing like that I'll probably go back and attack it with a scraper, but what the heck.  I'll try to restrain myself and just finish the edges then wire it to hang.

Making more artworks

I have been trying to dedicate some time to studio, and am pleased to present the first of a series of encaustic paintings!  I'm calling the series "Instinct" because I let instinct guide me a lot.  I figure if the universe brought something to my path and it's not icky, so be it.  Let's roll.  

And that's what happened with encaustics.  I happened to see some work by Sally Condon in a downtown Albuquerque gallery and fell in love with it.  I had to learn that technique!  So I found a workshop in Santa Fe and learned from one of the best (and nicest) around - Ellen Koment.  I quickly set up my studio and got to work.  All of this despite the fact I have no time between my job and the gallery, have no space - I gave up my out-of-house studio and moved home, and have no money, but plenty of canvas and acrylics.  Instinct told me to do this, and I am loving it!

My new page, encaustics, has photos of the first works of the series.  More to come.

Here's another, larger piece I'm working on.