Billie

Progress pictures of the latest encaustic painting. Looking at mark Karasick's work influenced how this one turned out, smoother and dreamier than my drippy work from before. . I'm trying to wrest control of the wax so that I can make more decisions about where it's smooth and where the drips and valleys build up. Next I need to bring back the agressiveness of the earlier paintings, so things don't get too soft.

The underpainting was in blue and white encaustic. no oil glazing on this one. This is the only part that billie posed for, so the painting really got away from her likeness in the later stages.

I painted on a layer of clear wax between each step and scraped it down to a smooth surface.



Then I started adding in the colour. There was a disastrous experiment where I tried to make a kind of encaustic glaze, about three parts linseed oil to one part wax. it looked great, but NEVER dried. So instead I worked with very transluscent wax.


The painting should be finished later today, I'll post the final shots.