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This series mixes digital photography with encaustic painting. With these photo-encaustics, I try to to use the photographic image as a starting point and then blend the painting and photo together. The wax of the encaustic builds up and breaks away from the flatness of painting, in a tactile way. At the same time, the photographic underlay brings a third dimension, through the ephemeral quality of light.


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Sunburst
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 12x24". 2003.
Mixed Flowers
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 24x24". 2004.
Landscape 2
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 18x24". 2003.
Hothouse Flowers 1
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 18x24". 2003.
Landscape 1
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 18x36". 2003.
Desert Flower
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 12x24". 2003.
Airstripe
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 12x24". 2003.
Wheels
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 16x20". 2004.
Plum Landscape
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 12x24". 2004.
Machine
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 8x10". 2003.
Machines
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 18x24". 2003.
Blue Machine
Photo and encaustic on wood panel. 11x14". 2003.
         

 

     

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