Rust Prints and Gouache

Sometimes a girl just wants to have fun! Gouache always brings out the lighter side. The rust prints looked so randomly happy I thought they needed color and fun.

Secret Code Art/ Ancient Wisdom

Ancient Wisdom

I love the way this piece (encaustic on cradled board)came together. It started with a secret code book I found in a antique shop. I fell in love with the symbols on the cover of the small booklet and just knew it would somehow work it's way into my art. 

I decided to use the Chinese code written with walnut ink on a piece of handmade paper, can you decode what I wrote?

Cold Wax /Oil and Wax

SUMMER

This winter when the studio window froze shut, I wasn't able to work with my encaustic (hot wax), you definitely need some exhaust system...mine is a window and fan.  This is when I discovered (through the magic of the blog world) cold wax! It could be used with oil paint which I love most and it didn't need to be fused yet allows you to create all kinds of texture.' Summer' was my first piece and once again I was in love!

Turquoise Dreaming
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Far & Away available on artbycasm.com

'Far & Away' was the third piece I did and just had to add in the map , so technically it is a mixed media piece.

Night Fall
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Mermaid
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City Lights
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Some of the blogs were I learned about Cold Wax are Jeane Myers at A R T I T, Rebecca Crowell at Rebecca Crowell and Judy Wise at Judy Wise.

Creativity/Action, Happy Moves

Happy Moves , Ink&Rust

Most of my art starts with some inspiration and then unfolds as things are put in motion.  I'm never sure when or where the inspiration will show up, but show up it does and when it does I recognize it instantly. Like a light blub turning on. Then the inspiration may sit for a while or it my be put into motion immediately. It is a natural process and works best when I don't force it. However nothing is ever produced unless I start, even if I start with something totally unrelated.  It must be put into motion to arrive at the destination. 

Bleach Painting On Black

Iron Diptych, encaustic mixed media , available on my website artbycasm.com

Dance: A Painter's Perspective

 I was so fortunate to be able to attend my good friend Julie's exhibition of paintings she did of the Dancers from the Minnesota Conservatory of the Arts. The work is stunningly beautiful! 

It was fun watching the dancers look through her sketch book from the year long project to spot themselves.
Congratulation Julie!!! You can see more of her work here.

Where is spring?

REALLY...this is spring?