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"Painterly Encaustic Workshop" at the encaustic center.
It was my intention to have this be a sort of Janus/light-dark/public/shadow kind of portrait.
It needs more work!
One of the things I did for the first time on this was USE A TORCH. Propane. Yeah!
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after a painting by Curt Butler of North Carolina. If I had had sufficient time to find one of my OWN landscape references, I would have done so. He does an amazing job, though, of simplifying landscapes into shapes and then rendering them in encaustic.
There's more work to be done on this... both with toned and colored wax and RF pigment sticks.
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With this painting, we started out with liquid (CONCENTRATED) watercolors (from Dick Blick) and applied them to our birch boards with sponge-brushes. Then thin double layers of was, then some encaustic wax and some RF pigment stick pigment rubbed into very thin layers.
As I look at the thumbnail, it looks like a blue snake head. Maybe I should rotate it 90 or 180 degrees! I don't much care for snakes.
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Even though the "trunks" of knitted items got lost (courtesy of UPS), Susan Gibbs gave a fine performance when telling us about Juniper Moon Fiber (and the Farm), the present day vagaries of the yarn business and how a dynamo works. Susan is the dynamo.
And who knew that practically all the wool grown in the US is promised to the US ARMY for wool uniforms? That's why "her" American-designed wool yarn actually comes from Italian sheep. And, apparently, US mills are either tiny and run like hobbies, or huge and only make thread for American Outfitters. Here she is a "job creator" and she can't make it work for Americans. (She does draw the line, however, at sweat shop conditions for both humans and animals. Those Italian sheep and millers don't know how lucky they are.
Plus, Susan was just SO endearing.
Gonna knit.

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The pink ball of beautiful is "Findley" laceweight. Susan says she doesn't like knitting lace because it is too "fiddley." But I'm going to love this.

Even though the "trunks" of knitted items got lost (courtesy of UPS), Susan Gibbs gave a fine performance when telling us about Juniper Moon Fiber (and the Farm), the present day vagaries of the yarn business and how a dynamo works. Susan is the dynamo.
And who knew that practically all the wool grown in the US is promised to the US ARMY for wool uniforms? That's why "her" American-designed wool yarn actually comes from Italian sheep. And, apparently, US mills are either tiny and run like hobbies, or huge and only make thread for American Outfitters. Here she is a "job creator" and she can't make it work for Americans. (She does draw the line, however, at sweat shop conditions for both humans and animals. Those Italian sheep and millers don't know how lucky they are.
Plus, Susan was just SO endearing.
Gonna knit.

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