I know most artists have a goal to exhibit their work. I’m happy with making a gift of it at this point in my life, and encaustic photography has been my choice of late.
My best friend turns 71 tomorrow. She has lived in a locked floor of an assisted living “memory” unit for the past four years. She no longer knows me but I am hoping she might have a shard of memory left of her younger, very athletic self. She was the best water skier and I know because I was the worst.
I began with a bit of graphite pigment on a warm encaustic 4 X 4 in board. Added some white oil stick as well as white encaustic paint and then did the photo transfer. Final stages used oil sticks, pan pastels and oil pastels. If I could have used the kitchen sink, I would have thrown that in too. I put her name in India Ink on the finished piece and shall take it to her today along with an African Violet plant. She used to have an African Violet plant on her hallway table. PS. I had to use some background music on this one, as it was just killin’ me to look at the photos and hear the silence all at the same time.
