Encaustic Portrait Workshop

12x16

oil and wax medium on board

Just spent the last 3 days in an Encaustics Portrait workshop at The Encaustic Center with artists Lori Murphy and Bonny Leibowitz.  It was so much fun not only working with portraits but with a new medium that includes using a torch and an iron!  Very addictive!  These are the results of three very intense days of work.  

Roadside Oak

Roadside Oak

18x24

Oil on canvas

All those oak tress you see along the road in the Texas Hill Country!  I just love them, their shapes and colors and age.  They are often alone in a field - the stories they could tell of Texas history. Anyway, this one was a lot of fun to play with the layers of colors and use a palette knife for texture (and because I always feel playful with a palette knife).