PROCESSES

CYANOTYPE - MIXED MEDIA - ENCAUSTIC

Working in a number of print making and mixed media for original artworks

Alternative print processes like cyanotypes are created using chemically sensitized papers and processing the image created with live plant materials. By toning with natural acids and water, textures and colors can be altered either in the early or post processing stages. Hand coloring and encaustics can be combined to continue layering on top of finished images.

MIXED MEDIA: Collage, water color, acrylic and other media are used to create wall decor to book art. Sometimes these mixed media collages are covered in encaustic wax to create interesting effects.

Encaustic monoprints are made by using melted pigmented wax and other compatible media directly onto a heated palette and lifting an image onto translucent Japanese papers.

Encaustic paintings consist of working with a mixture of melted beeswax and damar resin to create a wax medium that is layered and fused with heat or fire directly onto wooden panels to create a painting. The use of collage materials, pigments, mark making by incising and scraping back wax to reveal hidden marks are part of the many methods of working with this ancient medium.

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