Shiva oil sticks plays well and I have one R&F pigment oil stick in pale yellow and a blending stick. These are the 2 pieces on birch cradle boards which I actually thought about what I wanted to do design wise. The board is on top of a teflon cooking sheet. The watercolors were used on the cheesecloth as well as the the first layer on top of the board (allowed to dry with help of the heat gun)
Don is also playing with encaustics. We started out experimenting together in his studio which was fine and went well, but I had to be alone in my own studio to really pay attention to what I was doing and learning and thinking. I had to own the process in my own space. What is interesting is how Don, a painter, approaches his experiments compared to how I, based in surface/design/cloth/quilt, approach. I'll try to remember to get a few snap shots of Don's pieces tomorrow.
I mixed my own beeswax and resin earlier in the week with a imprecise measure of 8:1. My mixture gave a harder surface (the one in the post below) than the the Jacquard pre-mix (the ones in this post). I prefer my mix to the touch over the pre-mix. The pre-mix still feels pliable...maybe a couple of days to cure will change that. Tomorrow I'll add a pinch of damar resin to the pre-mix.
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