9. Encaustic and oil stick on illustration board

Expansion
90x90mm

8. Incised encaustic with oil paint

Sundial
Incised encaustic with oil paint

7. Encaustic with oil paint

Timepiece
Incised encaustic with oil paint and graphite on illustration board 

6. Impressed image with Verdigris patina

5. Computer Residuum 2
Verdigris on acrylic emulsion on illustration board

My Studio Gallery is officially open

5. Encaustic and oil stick on board

'Computer Residuum'

3 and 4. Verdigris on letterpress

 

     Acrylic emulsion, letterpress and verdigris on mixed media board

The font is 30pt Jenolan, printed with a galley proof press. 

1. and 2. Residuum: What remains

 

Encaustic with letterpress

I'm currently working on a series of small - 9cm square - encaustic and mixed media works that will later become components of larger works.  The small scale is ideal for experimenting with combinations of media such as encaustic painting, oil paint, metal oxides, letterpress, intaglio printing, solar plate, monotype, cyanotype and collage of darkroom and digital photography.  My aim is to complete an average of one work a day, though each work will take several days to make and reflect upon.  I plan to post them on my blog as I go.  Here are the first two.

Encaustic and letterpress with oil stick

Inspiration came from a series of poems called De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) written by the Roman philosopher poet, Lucretius, in c60BCE.  His writings were based on the ideas of Epicurius 500 years before that.  The quotes are from a translation of his poems.