She authored a book about her signature process, encaustic and oil on custom handmade paper forms, Wax and Paper Workshop (North Light Press, 2012) and two instructional videos demonstrating
encaustic painting process.
Not exact matches
Encaustic painting is an ancient
process that involves using heated beeswax combined with colored pigments.
«The ancient, labor - intensive
process of
encaustic painting has come a long way since art historian H.W. Janson, in 1941, declared it an «almost forgotten medium.»
Once I got over trying to make an «
encaustic painting» in plastic and gave into the idea that I was making an acrylic
painting, I got into the
process.
(born 1938, Bronxville, New York, USA) in his earliest mature works explored a reductive strategy which seemed similar to that of Jasper Johns's and Ellsworth Kelly's contemporaneous works, yet more formalist:
paintings such as Return 1 consist of subtly grey fields
painted in
encaustic (wax - medium) with a narrow strip along the bottom of the canvas where Marden left bare evidence of
process (i.e., drips and spatters of
paint).
These
encaustic paintings are the results of a repetitive
process of adding and removing layers until imagery reveals itself, creating a space for the viewer to enter into a calming or meditative state if even for a moments time, revealing the transformative power of art.