My love affair with encaustic is passionate, fiery, and hot (get it?  Hot? Get it?). I have been working with many new techniques and learning from my many mistakes.  My friend Mary and I took a workshop at the Encaustic Art Institute just outside of Santa Fe and we learned so many things and had a great time.  If you are in Santa Fe, their museum is well worth the 20 minute ride to see some stunning works in encaustic.

I am now preparing for the Affordable Art Festival which will be held in Littleton CO on August 25th.  I love this show because of the many art loving people that support it.  Everything is priced at $150 or below, which puts original art into the hands of those who might not be able to afford it.  I love this idea.  It’s also a fund raiser for the Arapahoe Community College scholarship fund.  I love this idea too.

Below, please enjoy one of my latest encaustic works.  It is done from one of the many pictures I took on my trip to Arches National Park.  Every now and then, an artist does a work that takes them so far off of their beaten path, they may never find their way back.  This is one of those works for me.  It will be one of my 11am Deals, so if you are going to the show in Littleton, stick around!  I will also have a pastel work to be displayed at 11am.

Arches Horizon, 20 x 8 encaustic $1500, $150 if you buy it at AAF!

Encaustic is so different from anything I’ve done before.  It requires a heat gun or a blow torch.  Here’s mine.  I call him Sparky!

No, I haven’t burned my self yet.
No, I haven’t set my hair on fire yet.
But I think this is the beginning of a new relationship!