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Encaustic Icon: Lepidopteran Still

Posted in Art, Painting, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, eggshell, encaustic, icon, mosaic, moth, Painting, steph gerolimatos, stephg on October 31, 2009 by ssstephg

moth, encaustic, eggshells on cradled panel
6 x 6 inches

Another in the encaustic icon series, this one will probably require more work. There are times when I seem to find dead moths everywhere. Unfortunately, I’ve lost some of my best finds–I’ve somehow misplaced all of my big pale green luna moths and the perfectly preserved face complete with spiral tongue of the Sphinx Moth I found was eaten off by hungry ants. Damn ants always ruining the picnic.

detail photo and thoughtflow after the jump! Read more »

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Encaustic Icons: Herpetological Relic

Posted in Art, Painting, Stephanie Gerolimatos with tags Art, dessicated, eggshell, encaustic, icon, mosaic, Painting, relic, remains, steph gerolimatos, stephg on October 24, 2009 by ssstephg

encaustic, snake and eggshells on cradled panel
6 x 6 inches
Yup, that’s a tiny little dead snake I found flattened on the road.
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This is an example of a series of encaustic works I started a couple of years ago and am about to pick back up. I’ve never gotten around to deciding how to present the work. I thought I wanted to build fancy guilt frames for all the pieces, but at this point I’m thinking that might be a little unnecessary, and maybe I should just stick with something simpler–no framing at all. I’ll let you know when I decide for sure. There are more in the works. I think so far I have started pieces using this snake, a moth, a frog and some hornets.

Some of you may be wondering, “What’s with the dead things?” Here’s the explanation I wrote for my website where I still haven’t posted any of the actual work: Read more »

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