This morning I woke up at an ungodly hour but that's another story.... Let's just say it is now 6:30 am and I have already painted a textured encaustic painting and am about to blog about it. Crazy....I know. Because so many of you are fascinated with how I create these encaustics, I thought I would share the process in photos. I had a 6 x 6 cradled panel that I had started with some book pages and a pattern fused onto a white wax base. I dipped some paper ribbon from a gift

I finally got my latest paintings added to my website! Whew, what a job! If you follow me on Facebook, you will have seen that I have jumped back into encaustics. It's so much fun to be back playing with wax. I have been creating a series of Prairiescapes in wax which are both colourful and textural. Make sure you check them out on my website. I especially like the 3" x 4" teeny tiny ones that are perfect to set on a shelf. Here they are together. Aren't they the cutest! I

Hey art lovers Because it's spring, it's time to move some paintings to make way for new work in the studio. To make room I'm having a [if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t136" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="136" adj="10800" path="m@7,l@8,m@5,21600l@6,21600e"> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="sum #0 0 10800"></v:f> <v:f eqn="prod #0 2 1"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum 21600 0 @1"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @2"></v:f> <v:f eqn="sum 21600 0 @3"></v:f> <v:f eqn="if @0 @3 0"></v:f>