Art and Soul Day Two: Encaustics

It's really special when you meet someone in person who you have been admiring for a long time via her blog. This was the case with my being in Judy Wise's Encaustic workshop at Art and Soul on Sunday and Art Journal Workshop on Saturday. I had blown Judy up so large in my mind that I was amazed when I saw she was a petite little woman...but her talent is gigantic and her generosity of sharing what she knows with us was huge. It felt like hugging an old friend. Thank you Judy! My encaustic piece before adding the wax, after painting a wood block black, adding colorful papers; cutouts of birds, and a glossy photo of Henry V, then adding painted stars on dark blue over black paint. (happy animal Wednesday!!!)

I met another awesome artist there, Jenny Lee Wentworth of Creativity is Happiness blog. This is her wonderful art piece before adding wax too waiting for that second butterfly to land in the upper right hand corner.

Judy at her demo table behind her wonderful encaustic works of art.

I tried to collect and collage many of the wonderful pieces created on Sunday

in this fun filled workshop.

enlarge photos to see more details please.

In the next collage below the Henry piece in upper left corner now has wax and gold foil spirals added.

That's Jenny in top row 3rd from left.

Second row 2nd from left is my table mate Linda. Next to her is Jenny Stroyeck who also did awesome art pieces. I'm sorry I don't know every one's names nor am I connecting each piece to it's artist.

Enjoy them all, they are wonderful artists and wonderful works of art.

My other piece is the one on the bottom row far left with wax

and next to it you can see it before wax was added. Wax changed the white to gray

and words from behind that cut out show through adding an unexpected,

but very cool addition to the piece. Gold foil dots added around the little girl last. Turquoise paint on top of black background paint; cut out paper for houses on bottom; cut out doll and paper for her dress added on top; painted splotches with added paint dots around the crayon picture (that Judy said looked like castles to her).

What a learning experience!

Fun Fun Fun!!!!