I mentioned the Montserrat College of Art's encaustic workshop on my UStream. It is over, it was in the middle of last month. I thought it was this month, ah well. It's a yearly thing. Anyway the link to the site telling you all about it is here.
Also my friend and classmate Helene Farrar does a lot of encaustics. You can see her blog here and the website of her gallery here.
Love how she cut out the letters from magazine pages. A simple page but with lots of oomph.
Love this guys stuff, He does his work on stickers or junk and glues it into his moleskine. Great stuff.
This is an interesting tutorial on grungy text based background. Pretty cool.
For this page I wrote out an intensely personal entry in a thick ball point pen, pressing hard into the thick soft stonehenge 140lb paper. After I had done that I use a credit card to scrape a REALLY thin layer of red paint over teh top of the writing.
I then doodled a face in sumi ink on the right page which was painted a pale blue color. I used a waterbrush to blend that into the blue background. I wanted to have an area to write on the right side so I used some white acrylic paint to cover up some of the blue. I sealed the sumi ink with some gloss gel medium. After that had dried I went back into the eye area and added the white of the eye.
I watered down some blue acrylic paint and dripped it from the top of the page. After it had dried I used a white watercolor crayon to outline the drips and pop them out a bit.
After the whole thing dried I wrote on top of it with a gel pen, it didn't write so well so I went over it with an elmer's paint pen. On the right side the gel pen wrote well enough so I sealed it with gloss gel medium and after it had dried added some highlights with watercolor crayon.
I discovered, by accident, on this page, that if you brush gel medium over gel pen it lifts and blends it quite well, it continues to lift the ink as it dries. Which could be a very cool technique to try out.
Love these little ACEO's (ATC?) Done in watercolor, all of farm scenes. I'm a sucker for farm scenes.
Love these ink imakes of the wood ibis. Great stuff.
Holy shit. damn. I love this guy's work. Everytime I look at his flickr stream I'm blown away. His work is slightly creepy, ever so weird and yet it draws me into look more closely.
I've been wanting to get a pochade box, also known as a thumb box for awhile now but they are … well beyond my price range. We have a variety of great thrift stores in the area and I needed a couple of new shirts for work. I stopped by found a couple of shirts, decided to wander the book aisle to look for art books.
They had no good art books so I wandered the housewares aisle just looking, and in the decorating section, which is generally a pile of useless shit I found a wooden mini wine bottle box with nice hinges and clasps. I also found a medium sized cigar box. I grabbed both. I spent $8 total. Both are made of wood, but I may collage over the top of the cigar box, though a cigar box pochade is a classic.
I've looked at a variety of videos and plans for making my own and I have a rough plan for what I'd like to do with my 2 little boxes.
I watched this video about the pochade box:
I also looked at a bunch of blogs but this one stood out as the best.
I love the idea of making a list of what you need for the day in your journal. Great idea.