I took some time away from painting during Covid. Needed some time to digest what I was experiencing in the emergency room. Played around with computer language, microprocessors, encaustics, sticker art. Spent time cooking, hiking, sculling, splitting firewood and enjoying the outdoors. The World seems to have settled back to its chaotic old self and I felt it was time...
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I have been learning the Arduino IDE and Python computer languages and experimenting with microprocessors, servomotors, LEDs, soldered sculptures to create mechanical flowers that “bloom” in response to the human touch, electronic jewelry, etc… Mechanical Flower Edit this page
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Created a sticker for ZuZu inspired by Shepard Fairey’s Obama Hope poster and We The People Posters.
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I started from the same image of Suzy that I made into an encaustic. This time using oil on panel. I restricted myself to a very limited palette and worked to achieve contrast and a wider range of values than I typically have in the past. Oil on acrylic primed wood panel. Ground was then toned with Burnt Sienna Palette and Supplies: Cadmium Red MediumQuinacridone...
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“The Kiss” (after Klimt detail) (2018). Louis Cooper. Encaustic on wood panel. 12″x12″ Continuing to experiment with encaustic techniques I reproduced a detail from Klimt’s “The Kiss.”
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My second experiment with encaustic painting was a painting of my mother Karin. Encaustic, paper, gold leaf and oil stick on R&F encaustic gessoed cradled birch wood panel. Palette and Supplies: Gamblin oil paints Sennelier Artist Oil Pastel Sticks Paper Gold leaf Enkaustikos Refined White Beeswax Enkaustikos Damar Resin R&F Hot Plate Intertek VT 1100 heat gun...
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