Waxing Poetic

I've been doing a lot of experimenting lately. It's been playful! What an enlightening, refreshing thing to be. I can't encourage you enough to be playful again too!
I always thought I'm not much of a painter, partially because I'm not and partially because I didn't enjoy it. Maybe it was the inferiority complex that's easy to get at MICA in regard to painting. But for whatever reason, I started to be interested in painting again. So I thought I'd try it again, but on my terms.  This led me to encaustic painting. I often use wax on my figures. I love the notion of beeswax and that translucent surface. This just made sense.

The set up:

The attempts:

I clearly have a long way to go, but I'm seeing some of the potentials of wax painting. And I think my recent watercolor lessons will help to inform these paintings. In fact I have a stack of clay slabs just waiting to be experimented upon.