I created a class that included feeding all the parts of me that were needed in order to build a meaningful body of work. I settled on the idea that good art is made with 3 important features all working independently, yet in balanced conjunction with one another so that they come together in the end to make that amazing piece of art.

You’ve all heard that there is nothing new in art, I don’t believe this is true to begin with and especially as it pertains to these Materials. There is so much still to explore for artists who choose to take the leap and dive into something new. Artists are innovators and pioneers, there is still so much to discover.

For a long 5 years I had been searching the world for the perfect drawn line in encaustic; something thin, clean, that would flow from my hand like a pencil line. I had always been a doodler, I love to draw and was always frustrated by the line drawing techniques I found with encaustic. I tried it all-wire, thread, transfer papers, tracing paper transfers, oil pencils, incising and filling the wax-all were good, but I found something unsatisfactory about each.