I decided to walk myself through the steps of making “Twilight” New York City and perhaps it’ll benefit anyone trying to walk their own creative path. One pattern for me in trying to develop my own aesthetic (as well as skills) with this encaustic medium is clearly to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. I have done enough of them now that I am deciding my aesthetic may be more akin to going to the animal shelter and picking out a rescue animal. An abandoned or abused animal is in the shelter (my failed photo transfer or encaustic painting) and then is rescued by a sympathetic soul (me and Photoshop) and starts a new life.
This is only the latest example of taking what I feel to be an unsuccessful encaustic endeavor and turning it, through Photoshop, into a more successful (to me) image. For another example of this same “rescue” process see this post titled, Forget Tuna Melt, Try a Boston Encaustic Melt.
For this video, I narrate the different stages with some candid aesthetic commentary like “Wow. This is God Awful.”
