by Debra Claffey | Aug 8, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This began as a demonstration painting, where I was showing how encaustic can be used as a drawing material. I covered the encaustic drawing with oil and wax paint, expressly for the way the paint wipes off the encaustic, but sinks into the lovely Rives paper. ...
by Debra Claffey | Aug 4, 2018 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress
This piece began with cold wax and oil paint, rather than a drawing in encaustic on paper. The top layer is oil and wax. No title yet. Three Leaf Series, Untitled, 2018, oil with wax, graphite, on Rives BFK paper mounted to birch, 24 x 24 inches. ← Reworking As...