Doors of Asheville fundraiser event

Home Sweet Home is the name of this encaustic painting. It will be in a fundraising auction this Friday for Mountain Housing Opportunities, an organization that builds affordable housing in the area. The event is called the Doors of Asheville, and that's the theme for the art that is donated. Some pieces are actually done on doors. This will be the third year I've donated a painting for this fundraiser, and this year the art was juried in. If you are local, consider coming to the event. It's a great time for a great cause.

Little Dotty Bee

Here is another little encaustic painting. It is only 4x4 inches, and I wanted to keep the design simple. I carved out the bee design after layering up several layers, including the drips (dots). Then I filled the bee in with brown and layered it with white and then scraped back the white to expose the bee and other layers. Fun with wax.

Encaustics

This is one of my early attempts at encaustic painting (painting with pigmented wax). The bee was drawn on tracing paper and imbedded into the wax with a layer of translucent wax over it. That came after several tries to carve/draw the bee into the wax itself. It is a fun but very different medium for me, and I am excited by the possibilities.