Twilights and Meadows

I’ve been obsessing about sunsets lately, especially through my recent projects, but I’m equally enamored with the sunrise. Although I may not always directly witness the sun rising, my bedroom, which faces east, offers spectacular, unobstructed views of...

Papers and Sunsets

As a creative person, I am always curious. I love to explore and experiment with different kinds of mediums and materials. This is how I discover what I like and what I don’t like. But one material I gravitate to again and again is paper. It is such an...
A Mini Journal Project

A Mini Journal Project

I found this small, unused, Arabic datebook in a used bookstore which I thought would be great reworked into a new handmade journal. The pages were 4.75 x 4.25 in. and made of cover-weight kraft paper, half-lined and half-illustrated. The lined half, I thought, is...
Encaustic Timelapse #2: Dried Leaves

Encaustic Timelapse #2: Dried Leaves

Here’s a 60-second timelapse of today’s encaustic piece. I collaged some papers on the substrate and then covered the whole surface with drywall compound. It’s interesting that when I applied wax and fused, some of what’s underneath peeked...
How to Make Encaustic Medium

How to Make Encaustic Medium

Encaustic medium, often simply referred to as wax, is a combination of beeswax and damar resin. When pigment is added to encaustic medium, we then have encaustic paint. encaustic medium = beeswax + damar resin encaustic paint = beeswax + damar resin + pigment BEESWAX...