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Repairing Damage to Encaustic Art
Last time I described the vicious feline attack on my favorite encaustic piece, Accidental Sea. Yesterday, several people gave good advice on how to TRY to fix the damage, and a dog person suggested...
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Giant Encaustic Egg
This being the end of a long week here at Gulag Hive, I want to direct my thoughts and good wishes to Dublin where Niamh of Thislittlestudio is doing something truly egg-spirational. Just go there now...
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Encaustic Glaze Week
I’m still loving this book—Encaustic Materials and Methods by Frances Pratt and Becca Fizell. It was written at a time when encaustic art included a range of materials and techniques, and many of the...
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Encaustic Glaze Week–Hot Glaze
David Aronson (1923-). Bell-Boy. Encaustic, 28.5″ x 18.5″. Last time I talked about a very simple adaptation to the encaustic medium recipe we all use. Instead of the standard 8 parts beeswax to 2...
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Glaze Week Continues
I’m in a glaze myself today as we finally reach Friday here at The Hive. In my first post I talked about a glaze made from an enhanced version of the wax medium recipe that we all use. In the next...
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Cold Wax Paint Redefined
Good morning. We’re going to talk about cold wax paint this week—a subject that one would think I’d already exhausted. I’ve written how cold wax paint can be used in encaustic work, it can be treated...
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Casein–The Other Milk Paint
Last time I talked about making milk paint gesso from fresh or reconstituted milk. Works great. I even did a batch where I added baby powder as filler, and I have to say I’m impressed. Though there’s a...
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There and Back Again
Hello! Yes, friends, I’m back from the Reno Recovery Unit at Bellevue Oregon. This is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. When last we spoke, I had petrified albino...
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New Lee Kelly Books
Hello, everyone, I’m not dead. I’ve been… well, that’s a long story for another post. Right now I want to tell you that The Theory and I have put together three new books about Oregon sculptor Lee...
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Self-publishing exhibition catalogs
Surprised to hear from me again so soon? I was on hold with the employment office and thought, why not write a blog post? Funny what goes through your mind after listening to repeated pre-recorded...
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