Experimenting with Encaustics

This has been a very experimental week as I tried encaustic painting on my own. Mixed media with wax might be more accurate because I used soy wax, not encaustic medium and it has paper and pastel and oil paint in it too!

Prints

I've been taking a printmaking class and while I've done lino-cuts before I've never used a press. What I'm looking forward to trying is solar plate etching. Here are a few of my attempts.

This one is a lino-cut on dry block-ptinting paper.



















This one is the same lino-cut but using soy-based ink on damp rag paper. I'm not sure but I think I like the other one a little better.

A Moment on The Lips...

This is my submission to the latest DSFDF challenge. I pulled out my pastel pencils and black sanded Colorfix paper.

A Moment on the Lips

8" x 8"

Pastel on sanded paper

Veggies 2

I can't believe I got a chance to do 2 versions of this challenge. While the watercolour on Yupo version was fun to try, this one is more me.

16" x 16" acrylic on canvas

Yupo Veggies

Here is my summer veggies submission for the latest Different Strokes from Different Folks challenge. It was indeed a challenge because it's my first attempt at watercolour on Yupo paper. This piece of paper has been calling my name for a while now so I decided to break from my usual acrylic and mixed media endeavours.
I don't think I would do anything with large washes on Yupo but I like the way you can wipe it off.
If time permits, I'll do another version using my acrylics.

Life's a Beach

Unfortunately I was 2 days late for the beach Different Strokes challenge, but here is mine anyway. I'll try to get Karin to post it still. When I was saving this for the web I was playing around and really liked the charcoal version so check it out below.

I may even like this one better than the original: