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Random Art Supply Thoughts
This is truly random. Has anyone ever made their own oil sticks? All they are is pigment, oil and wax. I keep accidentally making encaustic paint that is way too soft. It never occurred to me that I...
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Secret Language
I’m reading a wonderful book called the Riddle of the Labyrinth by Margalit Fox. It’s a detective story of sorts, about the people who deciphered the written language of ancient Crete, called Linear B....
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Obsolete pigments and excuses, excuses
I hate blog posts that start with excuses for why I haven’t been in the studio or haven’t blogged. It either sounds like I can’t manage my time very well (true dat) or have vastly more Important Things...
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Intermission
Back to encaustic for just a tick. Here’s a good post from Pistrucci Artworks blog, source of many ingenious art material solutions. This post offers several recipes for cold wax paste as a medium for...
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There and Back Again
Hello! Yes, friends, I’m back from the Reno Recovery Unit at Bellevue Oregon. This is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. When last we spoke, I had petrified albino...
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Caprice
For Christmas this year (no doubt as part of his therapy), The Theory made me a little book of pictures entitled Caprice. The images are from our kitchen renovation and show details of old wallpaper,...
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Snow Falling on the Hive
I’m watching the snow fall, the very snow I’ve been waiting for all year. I understand, people in other parts of the U.S. scoff at Oregonians’ inability to drive in the snow, dress for snow or, let’s...
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Since I’ve been gone
The snow shown in my last post (February 7th)? That’s long gone! So many un-wonderful things have happened since that peaceful snowy day that I haven’t had the heart to post anything. Where should I...
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And then what happened?
You may think that a broken-down studio roof in a rainy Pacific Northwest spring is about as a bad as it could get. But no! It gets worse. Our beehive died. Yup, that picture taken on Snow Day back in...
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The Rest of the Story
When we last spoke (regrettably, almost a year ago), my studio needed a new roof and our bee hive had died. So let’s catch up. The roof was replaced, but not without further adventures in dry rot, wet...
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New Lee Kelly Books
Hello, everyone, I’m not dead. I’ve been… well, that’s a long story for another post. Right now I want to tell you that The Theory and I have put together three new books about Oregon sculptor Lee...
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Self-publishing exhibition catalogs
Surprised to hear from me again so soon? I was on hold with the employment office and thought, why not write a blog post? Funny what goes through your mind after listening to repeated pre-recorded...
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Encaustic Materials and Methods by Francis Pratt and Becca Fizell
Cover of Encaustic Materials and Methods: A facsimile edition. Encaustic Materials and Methods is finally here! Long-time followers of this blog may remember that I’ve been talking about bringing the...
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