recent private workshops

grace's friend's awesome sketchbook that i just couldn't get enough of, her prints, grace's worktable, grace hulse having a great time working with encaustic, i think this is one of grace's pieces, grace's friend's cut wood pieces that she would like to work with in encaustic, one of grace's encaustic samples, grace's table and more sample paintings, joel's herbs and charcoal drawings, one of joel's collaged sample paintings, joel working hard on his clay sculpture.

my apologies for being slightly slow in posting my recent private workshop student's work! during the past couple of months i've enjoyed teaching three awesome artists the wonders of encaustic painting! grace hulse and a friend were here last month and each came with their own ideas and experience and created some great work. grace had experience working with encaustic and employed some markmaking techniques to some of her sample painting. grace's friend is a printmaker and used some of her gorgeous prints as a base for painting and further markmaking.
joel fisher-fishering was my april private workshop attendee. his interest was to enhance the surface of his clay sculptures-this was particularly interesting to me because no one has ever come to me with this request. joel also used to work in an herb distribution store, so he came with the most beautiful collection of dried flowers and herbs, which we embedded in the wax on the clay. joel also had a beautiful charcoal drawing which he cut up and used as a basis for a wax transfer.
i enjoyed all three students very much and i hope they're all well and enjoying the wax!! for more information regarding a private encaustic workshop, see my web site here.

sunday church drawing & happy 4th!!!!

this drawing wasn't meant to look like fireworks, but happily, it does!! happy fourth to you all!!!

anne lemanski

got bovine growth hormone?, 2007, Copper rod, photopolymer etching on paper, artificial sinew, 11 x 20 x 7, pygmy hog pop: 150, 2009, Copper, archival inkjet on paper, artificial sinew, 12 x 14 x 7, furadan feline, panthero leo leo (African lion), 2009, Copper rod, archival inkjet on paper,, shuka fabric, artificial sinew, 24 x 21 x 21, shirley, 2005, Copper rod, vintage photos, artificial sinew, 26 x 10 x 9, coyote, 2010, Copper rod, Mexican serapes, artificial sinew, 25 x 49 x 11

these animals suggest strength, courage and stability, but they're only made with thread and paper...a stark commentary on the fragility and evanescence of life...see more here.

amy stacey curtis

transit ride, 2006, 11x11,955. carnival of the animals (aquarium), 2005, 6x6, light rain and birds, 2006, 11x11, 935. prokofiev (piano concerto no 3 in c major), 2005, 6x6, 855. popham beach, 2005, 3x3

My interactive installations physically exist as art when temporarily assembled in a space and experienced by an audience. I strive toward an aesthetic, personal, and collective balance of chaos, order, and repetition--a raw language I feel resonates physically, emotionally, culturally, and spiritually within and around all of us--to convey that we are part of a whole. This balance in part depends on the audience who completes my creative process, invited to perpetuate, manipulate, and perceive my imagery in specific and purposeful ways. Without the audience's careful participation, my work is static and unfinished. Following each installation, my work exists only through documentation, dialogue, connection, memory.

The first 90 drawings are interpretations of what the sounds look like. The last 9 drawings are interpretations of what the sounds make me see. Before beginning each drawing, I listened to its sound over and over again until I could visualize the sound in my mind.

this artist has an enormous body of very interesting work...my favorite series are the sound drawings...see more drawings and hear the sounds that inspired them here and her other work here.

what i'm working on

rows: school 2, 2010, encaustic, mixed media on rusted and branded silk on wood, 16x16x1, rows: four o'clock on fourth street, 2010, encaustic, mixed media on rusted and branded silk on wood, 16x16x1, rows: bank, 2010, encaustic, mixed media on rusted and branded silk on wood, 16x16x1

new pieces from the rows series....see more here.

geoffrey gorman

Typhlops, Wood, metal, cloth, foam, found objects, 16 x 16 x 5.5, sorry, no info on this one, , Indri, Wood, metal, cloth, foam, found objects, 14 x 16 x 6, Gymnura, Wood, metal, cloth, foam, found objects, 18 x 12 x 6.5, Halli, Wood, metal, cloth, foam, found objects, 33 x 20 x 10

nightmarish, yet endearing creatures made with impeccable craftsmanship...see more here.

alison elizabeth taylor

Security House, 2008-10, Wood veneer, shellac, 93 x 122, Chainlink, 2008, Wood veneer, shellac, 34 x 46 , Squatter Doorway, 2009, Wood veneer, shellac, 53 x 46 1/2, Switch, 2009, Wood veneer, shellac, 14 x 11 1/2

amazing, powerful images executed with amazing skill in a very difficult craft...see more here.

sunday church drawing

luke jerram

Smallpox, HIV and an Untitled Future Mutation, untitled future mutation, detail, swine flu, detail, e. coli,

these are just too gorgeous for words, sparkly, clean, icy...see more here and here.

meghan price

all: acting like starlings, enameled copper wire

i can't even begin to explain how much i love this...fiber and drawing coming together...a gorgeous pairing...see more here.