Some of my students writing tonight to lyric prompts at One Arts Center in Burlington, Vt. Want to try one?
Writing Prompt: Write for three minutes based on the following lyric "I was carried to Ohio in a swarm of bees..." (Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National).
I had my third encaustic painting class tonight. We started with photo transfers on to a wax surface. You basically apply a xerox print to the wax, which you burnish and then use water to theoretically remove the paper and keep the xeroxed image. I say theoretically because it can be a tricky process and my tiger lost it's head and a lot of it's limbs in the process. You can see some of its stripes.
I prepared another board by pasting one of my digital collages to it. We will be working with that next week. I also gessoed a second board to create a smooth polished surface also to use next week and concluded the class by playing with wax on paper.
I think this wax on paper image will make a great collage background. Here are some more scenes from the class:
