tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58633073950134272312011-11-03T17:15:53.910-07:00Chronicles the progress of works in encaustic.Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09589607099842924413noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863307395013427231.post-51598018426949639842011-10-07T19:41:00.008-07:002011-11-03T17:15:53.946-07:00

Nice to see you here! Glad you caught this important announcement:Wax Art is coming to a close. This blog began with tracking a series of encaustics and sharing other wax related resources and news along the way. I'm grateful for the time here and the many comments and friends I've met during the process. I still work in encaustics an will keep tracking and sharing on my new blog with expanded

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I've always joked with my non-MFA artist friends... to call our next show "The M.F.A. Show" M.F.A. = Mighty Fine Art!! Hat's off to those who choose the path for personal fulfillment or other noble reasons. This report below from Off Ramp Gallery lays it all out, pros and cons.. do you really need an MFA to be successful in art?:My research shows that an MFA doesn't give you an advantage in

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Happy 4th of July!!I got a great holiday email this morning... that my painting, CRASH, was added to a Island Paradise Treasury on EtsyThis is where a work gets selected by other shop owners on the site - super cool! Check it out and also the fun work by GetCrafted in Australia who selected my piece!!

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Flip Flops & Fine Art SALE on my Etsy Shop!!Put on your flip flops and surf over to my Etsy Shop!!Mini Encaustic Works from my Water World Series7"h x 7"w / wax, resin, pigment on boardready to hang (keyhole cutout)To catch these mini waves...Monday June 27 to July 4th is THE time to snap up your favorite!Sale ends at Midnight on July 4th.RoxanneVise.Etsy.commusic by: Dick Dale & Stevie Ray

Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09589607099842924413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863307395013427231.post-56531298866837951662011-06-16T12:49:00.003-07:002011-06-16T12:58:28.760-07:00

Create personalized gifts at Zazzle.Visit ViseArt on Zazzle!

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This is one of my favorite Etsy Treasury's so far and I'm honored to have my painting, Flow, chosen by Etsy seller, White Oak Room and featured in this beautiful abstract collection.Flow is one of my Water Series paintings - little encaustic works that group together in a tribute to all forms of natural water. Enjoy this Treasury pick and visit White Oak Room to browse lovely handmade pillows!

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Check out this new Etsy Treasury by YanniCreations who featured my painting, Gaze, as part of this great selection! Take a look at this Etsy Treasury Thanks Yanni!

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What a great Mom's Day surprise! My encaustic painting, Crash, being chosen for a new Etsy Treasury (expires May 10) by Susan Hale. Thanks Susan!! :) Here's a look at Crash:

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You voted! I hear you!Thanks to all of you who took a second to tell me what you'd like to see on this blog. Besides more regular posts (ahemmm!) a whopping 75% came in for tutorials in wax. So, I'm jumping in right where I started... the basics - and will keep going from there. Time is still a slippery thing, so for now, look for 1-2 tutorials per month with support sheets, more posts and

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If you are a seasoned artist working in wax or even if you've never tried, but want to learn the techniques of encaustic painting, the Fourth Annual Encaustic Painting Conference should be on your list of things to do. Held at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, the conference takes place over a weekend from June 11-13, 2010 with a few after conference workshops into the next

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My painting, Flow, is featured in the Etsy Treasury, Blue As Blue Can Be selected by Nancy of Bellflower Designs - Great colors Nancy and Thanks! (Treasury expired Feb. 6, sorry you missed it!)

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It's always nice to hear appreciation for my work and when I got a little note from Thea Haubrich, who runs the Ning Community site, Encaustic Art, that she featured my work on the site... I did a little dance. She also did a post on her blog, Encaustic Canada - Thanks Thea!

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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!!You can read my newsletter sent today here....If you haven't subscribed yet to my Studio News - now is the time!! in December I draw from the list to select one lucky winner for a FREE original painting!! Whoo - hoo! Get signed up!My ifoundart project is launced with the first paintings being left around town and a new blog set up just for them. Check

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My little 4x6 watercolors are leaving the roost tomorrow. Sad, but sweet. I sketched and painted them quickly, but with a smile for each one and a wish that I could be a little fly on the wall when each is found. Where to leave them? THAT is the question! I'll start by leaving them along my errand trail - so a gas station... a paint store... the library?? May go out of my way a bit to find

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It's November. The month when the season and spirit of giving revs up. It so happens that it's also the month I'm putting some bubbling ideas into action. Creating art, to me, is an extension of myself. Distilling whispers of my intuition, insights and unguarded moments of truth and emotion into a bottle of art that's easier to take in. When my creative flow is happening, it's like riding a

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Back when I was first pushing the limits of acrylic mediums and texture - trying to get them to dry faster, build up thicker, scrape away easier - I bumped into Tony Scherman's work. I don't remember the magazine, maybe Art News(?), but his series, Blue Highway was spread out like an invitation to explore the metaphysical layers of blue imagery. His drips, wax builds and depth offered me a

Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09589607099842924413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863307395013427231.post-10195558433053875442009-09-25T09:56:00.001-07:002009-09-25T09:58:17.918-07:00

New Sagittarius wallpaper for computer and iPhones just posted here: Wallpaper Free Download

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New aspen paintings... I painted these pretty quick. They are just 5"h x 5"w on birch plywood panel... see more about them on Etsy Twilight Forest © 2009 Roxanne Vise The Same, But Different © 2009 Roxanne Vise

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Entry Postmark now set for September 9th, 2009 - link HERE to read more....

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Social Media. The place to be to get connected so THEY say. I constantly straddle the fence of jumping into the vintage grass of no technology and leaping onto the glossy side of all the great ways to get connected: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon Both sides look pretty green - depending on how I slept.I followed a rabbit trail and found Chris Guillebeau and

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Read the article and comment here! Scottsdale galleries closing to sell onlineHere are some questions I have if you have experienced this transition with a gallery:1) Are you currently represented by a gallery that has closed? If so - how is your work doing online? What has changed?2) If you experienced a gallery closing - did they streamline their artist roster when they went online?3) Are

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Wax is spellbinding and soothing in white. Worked as a luminious layer or built up as texture - each pulling you in for a closer view as if you are drifting into the painting itself....Here's one of my texture pieces I called, Gratitude. encaustic, 16"h x 16"w on birch panel:Call For Entries to the b.a.l.m (beauty art and life movement) White Show Opening October 23, 2009 at the Signs of Life

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I've finished this group of my Water World series (7x7's) in wax and they are off and running on Etsy! The set completes the few I posted in December under, "What Does a Year Bring?" What do you think - have a favorite? A critique? Love to hear!

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If I had blinked... I would have missed it - but, there it was - my painting handpicked by a supremely brilliant editor on the Etsy staff. I have yet to figure out how to this all works - but very cool! My painting, Coming to the Surface, was viewed over 350 times in a few minutes. Here's a snap shot of it that I was quick enough to grab:

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I have wrestled with the decision to open and Etsy online shop for a while. Don't get me wrong - I love the site, visit often and have even made purchases from some of the lovely handmade items there. But, my perception was that it was more 'craft' and I felt that my paintings are more 'fine art' - and that putting my paintings on the site would somehow downgrade my work. What a SNOB!!??? Me?

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The exhibition catalogue for The Diptych Project is now in print on Blurb. Artists on the west coast paired up with artists on the east coast to create collaborative works in encaustic. Each artist in the pairings created one half of a two panel painting (diptych) and then completed the dialogue as the work was then sent to the partner artist to create the other half. News of the catalogue has

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Lots of things happening since my last post - (a whole year ago!!?? - wow!) The world is going through a crazy time and the media loves the darkness of it all - so, I've turned off my news (literally cancelled satellite) and instead focused on optimism, hope, what I can do for others and on things I'm grateful for.I've mainly immersed myself in my little son's fresh discoveries and renewing my

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I've been working the craft... doing the art. Thinking, planning, sketching - I've got enough pieces planned to keep me in the studio for a couple of years. Thank God I didn't have a mirror when I emerged recently (ever see "Throw Mama from a Train"?)Anyway - up for some air, so here's a quick update. The panels in yellow will complete a series of nine that I began in early summer - a group

Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09589607099842924413noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863307395013427231.post-13539447870486995822007-06-29T22:15:00.000-07:002007-06-29T22:23:54.983-07:00

The open studio event is coming up so fast! One more thing to check off the list - design the ad for the tour directory. Here is a snapshot of what we came up with...Blog about open studios at Open Studio Events (or in AZ - Open Studio AZ)

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Beverly, Massachusetts (a few miles north of Boston) was the lucky town for the first annual Encaustic Conference held at Montserrat College.> arial;">301 Gallery, Encaustic Conference, Montserrat CollegeThis revival of the encaustic process is so great for artists working in the medium - hopefully, it will push prices for supplies to become more competitive, clue in suppliers to carry the tools

Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09589607099842924413noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863307395013427231.post-51946325097572517792007-06-02T16:44:00.000-07:002007-06-19T10:09:17.718-07:00

These two are basically finished. I've got 18 boards, so I'm going to use them up and create a 3 x 6 grid of 7" panels. That's the plan anyway... Of, course I may change my mind along the way!Back to painting...encaustic painting

Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09589607099842924413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863307395013427231.post-11283784217887602062007-05-31T18:43:00.000-07:002007-06-02T16:57:10.614-07:00

I have a few pieces ready for the first scraping - whew! These each have about 5 layers of colors, pthalo blue, rose madder, indian yellow, egyptian violet, a bit of white, burnt and raw sienna... not necessarily in that order, some mixes and not all on one painting...Here's a look...This one, I've taped up - ready to float a layer after I scape a bit...all images - ©Roxanne Vise - works in

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The supports for my new gemstone series are done! This weekend I got out to my studio and started working through my ideas. First I put down beeswax medium, which is pure, filtered beeswax and damar resin, then added some pigment to start my gemstone patterns. I got through the first layer, then decided that with all of the scraping and patterns I wanted to do on each piece, it may be better to

Roxannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09589607099842924413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5863307395013427231.post-17504161199942512992007-04-27T08:22:00.000-07:002007-06-22T22:00:20.214-07:00

It's beginning... again. My new series of encaustic work starts now! I've had a TON of excuses to delay this day - beginning last summer I had two basic ones - 1) it's HOT in the middle of summer in Arizona and who in their right mind works with hot wax in Phoenix in July?? 2) I was pregnant with my son and when choosing between working in the studio or taking a nap... naps usually won.Now,

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