Encaustic Icon: Dead Vespa WIP
6 x 6 inches
hornets and encaustic on cradled panel
Still in progress, this is another in the series of encaustic icons I’m making that incorporate remains of once living things. This one has a couple of hornets in it at present. Not sure what else I’ll add.
So I haven’t made it back to take photos of the exhibit where I’m showing the other two icons I posted here before. Hopefully, that will happen soon because there’s some really great work in the show this year. There seem to be some complications with my foot/ankle sprain combo. For some reason, it isn’t healing properly, and getting around has been tough. But I start physical therapy Monday so wish me luck. Fingers crossed! On the bright side of things, both the snake and the moth icons seem to have gone over really well. I got a ton of compliments at the reception which made dragging my sore, throbbing foot out for the night worth it. And I found out this week that they both sold! Yay!!!
I’ll add a couple of detail shots of the above piece after the jump.
December 19, 2009 at 3:20 pm
These works always get me to envision some of the process…or maybe I’ve just become Sherlock Holmes-like at this age. I know I do that with home repairs.
Hope your therapy make the difference. Makes me wonder if those things Tiger Woods did to his slow knee surgery are available to the general public by now.
December 19, 2009 at 5:47 pm
man, I really ought to post a demo on here one of these days, huh?
Thanks, Andrew. You mean loose women? I’m pretty sure they’re readily available anywhere you go.
December 19, 2009 at 3:22 pm
This is the bee’s knees!
December 19, 2009 at 5:48 pm
YOU’RE the bees knees! heheh thanks, man.
December 20, 2009 at 6:59 am
I don’t know what it’s called. Platelet-something. The procedure seemed so interesting that I looked right past all his other problems (though I’ll bet these next series of them will cost him more.)
December 20, 2009 at 10:44 am
hmmn, sounds interesting. maybe i’ll hit google and see what pops up. you know, i heard about the whole Tiger Woods’ “scandal” when my grandmother asked me what I thought about it. I didn’t think anything about it at the time but I’m starting to think Woods is a martyr for the sport he loves. He’s doing this crazy shit to bring the boring game of golf into the spotlight and make people associate it with exciting stuff like sex and alcohol and carwrecks and drama! He’s saying, “Golfers are sexy bad boy cheaters, too!” Bless his selfless heart!
December 21, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I caught something briefly on the business aspect of the PGA tour. They were talking about the overall revenue decline when he’s away.
My pop-psychology guess would be he has “daddy issues”, and is over-compensating for the loss. (Now I wish I had one of those booths Lucy had in Peanuts “Psychological Help – 5 cents.”)
December 21, 2009 at 2:09 pm
ahahaha! I’ve been saying I should build one and set up shop on the sidewalk for years!
December 21, 2009 at 8:26 pm
He’s not overcompensating for his father’s daeth. Tiger Woods was always a socially stunted creation of his father’s. He was called “Urkel” in college and finally lost his virginity after he scored his first double eagle. He’s an idiot.
Now, as to steph’s encaustic, dis be so fizzacally yummy in da mos’ vis-eeer-al way. really.
December 22, 2009 at 9:53 am
hahaha thanks! Tom, how’d ya like to be a partner in this venture? People always want advice. And we can sell lemonade or mulled cider for supplemental income if the “tell it like it is” approach fails.
December 21, 2009 at 9:12 pm
those textures remind me of cellulite and bot fly larvae. yay!!
December 22, 2009 at 9:58 am
ah! I had to google bot fly larvae and WOW! Wow! wow.
thank you, Toni!
December 23, 2009 at 9:40 am
my brain is a storehouse for gross crap. hahaha!!