Panoply

Sinews, 36x48, encaustic, pastel, 2016

Panoply, 18x24, encaustic, mixed media, 2016

This summer I've been experimenting with simple mark making. Just playing and seeing where it takes me.

Reworking Old Paintings

This summer I'm taking a bunch of old paintings that I'm not attached to and reworking them. Here is a Buddha I painted 10 years ago that I've taken one step further.

"Reflection", 36x36, encaustic, mixed media, 2016

Fading Tara

Fading Tara, 24x24, 2016

This piece started as a more traditional portrait I painted a few years back. I'm in the process of reworking many of my older portraits as experiments for a series I've been developing over the past years called, "Traces". This piece started as an oil sketch then was layered with colored waxes, some drawing, and a charcoal impression of an ancient Roman tombstone that I did a rubbing from at the American Academy in Rome. Lots of subtracting.

Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan, encaustic, 36x48, 2016

Christine de Pizan was a woman who supported her family through writing, a rarity in the 1400's. Born in Venice, married at 15 and widowed by 25 Christine took up writing to support her mother and children. She was a philosopher and French poet.

Christine de Pisan: Epistles of Othea
1404-08
Manuscript (Ms. français 606), 360 x 270 mm (folio size)
Bibliothčque Nationale, Paris

Christine de Pisan: The Book of the City of Ladies
c. 1405
Manuscript (Ms. français 606), 360 x 270 mm
Bibliothčque Nationale, Paris

William Kentridge Drawings in Rome - Elegy of the Ephemeral - A Contemporary Wall Narrative

William Kentridge is brilliant! Here he creates an ephemeral piece titled, "Triumphs and Laments", by erasing the pollution and organic growth along the banks of the Tiber.

Scintillation

Scintillation