Summer is quickly coming to a close - Labor Day will be here before you know it. So we thought this week should be about making a piece of art that is in the theme of summer: kites, playgrounds, picnics. Whatever summer means to you. I got to pick this theme and here is what I came up with.
I love playgrounds - have since I was a little kid. Playground equipment comes up in my art all the time, like this swing from a piece I did in 2007. This piece is about 6 feet long, painted acrylic on chipboard (file folder paper) with paraffin wax coating.
For this week's challenge I am showing a photo of a piece I did a little while back in encaustic. Encaustic is beeswax with damar resin added.
I used an image transfer process to put a merry-go-round on a wood substrate that had several coats of clear encaustic on it.
I added pink and white pigments to small pans of encaustic and used a hake brush to paint in the colored areas around the playground equipment.
I love this pink color and seem to use it a lot in my work.
The merry-go-round evokes a time of innocence to me. This equipment was also scary - I remember that we could get it spinning really fast and the object of the game, sometimes, was to see if we could get my little brother to fly off it onto the dirt.
Back before there were video games, all summer was spent at the playground - on the swings, teeter totter, slide, bars, and on this merry-go-round.
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