I was mesmerized by the intricacies of the surface of our amazing earth. I desperately wanted to replicate these marks, but when I tried, the results looked forced, hesitant and just wrong….when I literally discovered fire, I was in love.

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.