Some Encaustics for fun...... and other pursuits

Here are two recent encaustics I completed and such fun they were to work. I'm going to submit them to some juried shows that I usually enter this time of year - one up in Edmonds and one in Bothell. The layers are so lovely and in the first one the textures turned out so nice as well. This beeswax thing is just so darned addictive that I can't stop.

I thought I'd do some pieces in the near future with some realistic images in them so that people who enjoy more tangible objects can see how great this medium can be with those sorts of paintings as well. And since Spring has finally seem to have sprung around here I think I can promise tulips and hummingbirds as subjects. Suddenly both are around!

Spring does feel like the time to delve into new projects doesn't it. For instance, even though I've been a knitter all of my life, I've suddenly gotten this bee up my bonnet about learning to spin - especially colorful art batts and then to weave the new handspun on a small ridgid heddle loom.

I don't have a spinning wheel or a loom and I never have had, but I was reading one of my favorite blogs the other day - Stephanie McPhee's Yarn Harlot blog www.yarnharlot.ca/blog and she has done 2 such escapades within her last 6 or 7 posts whereby she has dipped into her stash, pulled out some lovely wool batts, spun then and then decided on a weaving project instead of knitting the handspun. So cool.

Now of course, Stephanie is a very fine fiber artist and a very experienced professional knitter, spinner and weaver but even so - WOW. Just clear out the blue she has veared off her normal course and I believe she has lit the fiber world on fire once again! Her blogs often have over 300 comments and they just jump when she does something like this. So the upshot for me is how long can I withstand the longing to jump into something new for me?

I guess we'll find out! :-)