Photo in encaustics
Some while ago our fellow blogger Ron Scubadiver posted a photo that I wanted to re-do in encaustics.
Here you can see the photo I was interested in…
So I asked Ron if I could have this photo. He sent it to me, I printed it and left it for a while. When I was ready to encaustic his photo I did.
This is the end result. I hope you like it!
Any feedback is welcome, so don’t hesitate… 😉
I dig it! Great job, I love the fall colors too. You did well. 🙂
Thanks a lot! I did the best I could… 😉
very nice. i learned a new art form today.
Congratulations on learning today, Paul! 😉 We learn more and more every day! 😉
Just to mention the photograph is of a massive steel sugarcane crusher photographed on the island of Maui in Hawaii. With Erica’s beeswax makeover, it has found an unlikely new life.
It has, hasn’t it Ron! A new life for a massive steel sugarcane! Thanks for working together on this one! 😉
Fantastic. I love the colors you used!
Thanks, Tim! It was great doing this photo into encaustics… 😉
Very interesting! The person in it really adds to it. It’s like foreshadowing.
How nice, Kimberly! You see the person in it too!!! 😉
Yes, really good!
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Amazing collaboration. The photograph has turned the machine into an abstract – the wavy steel munchers seeming like impressions left on wet sandbanks. Then the encaustic has taken the abstract and molded it into a landscape of greater depth and magnitude. It even looks like a figure looking into the ravine at the bottom left of the picture. The choice of molten earthy colours brings greater significance to the original purpose of the machine, and it’s formation by fire. While the photo draws me into the close-up view, the encaustic pulls me outward to see it as an enormity, a massive scale operation of magma-like proportion. Sugar melts, and so does the encaustic wax. Altogether, I am very taken by the entire being of this particular work.
Completely by the by, I have little gift to leave here for you, before I scoot off. Think of it as a little sign of appreciation for your work, and also for following my colouring book blog since near its humble beginnings.
Kia ora!
Anasera