I’m really quite fond of it, even if it is slightly less quirky than my usual space stuff. It is the second of the larger size prints, and I think I just really like having an almost-glowing planet half the size of my head on the wall. The complete lack of sense of scale of the web is growing increasingly irritating.
In Search of a B-Movie
Photoillustration, 12″x18″
While the daughters were napping today, I managed to get a little wax time in, prepping boards for the two pieces that have been in my head for weeks. The first one is “Dollface”, an extrapolation of the direction started in “Cherry Bomb” (same image, different direction, much different size). I’ve started casting a couple dozen doll faces that will be part of the piece, and as a consequence, managed to drip 200 degree wax on my fingers multiple times.
As a result of these little accidents, I started brushing the color on in layers, and had to stop half way on one to check on a Suspicious Noise(tm); I accidentally resumed with a different shade of red, and once I popped the results out of the mold, I really liked the increased depth the variation in color gives the piece, especially in how it highlights the features. So I started mixing colors on purpose, partially inspired by the colors in the wonderful piece (a purply-blue sphinx) that arrived yesterday from Angie Reed Gardner.
(I was going to show you, but my scanner is now in collusion with my printer, and is refusing to operate, and all the digital cameras are currently tied up. Hmph.)
May 8th, 2006 at 10:45 am
I’ve just found your site, through a friend (who recognized the worldcon reference and thot of me), and am particularly interested in the encaustics since this is a medium I have been thinking about getting into. Lovely work.
The “about” link doesn’t seem to be working tho.