✦ ORIGINAL ENCAUSTIC ✦
One-of-a-Kind Artwork
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About This Artwork
I was on the riverbank, hoping to photograph a bird I'd spotted earlier that day. I waited until the sun had dipped behind the hills, and just as I was about to pack away my camera and head home, I saw a beautiful silvery light sparkling in the wild grasses. The sunlight had faded, but the reflections from the river provided just enough light to photograph the scene.
Back in my studio, I transformed the image into an encaustic artwork, creating a composite image using a photograph of nesting finches that I'd taken further inland, and then burning layers of wax and raw pigments into the composite photograph until it transformed into an ethereal artwork.