I’m trying to decide if this is finished or not. Yesterday I went back to working on the last of the dozen small encaustic panels. I’d been playing around with making another few colors of wax paint and found a gorgeous Cobalt Violet oil paint in my supplies. SO….that with some reds, yellows, orange and a few slight mixtures produced this painting.

It is an intense color painting. First I needed to break up the overallness of the design……and I kept thinking that maybe it needed a little color contrast as well so I came up with these painted and incised yellow-green lines. After I photographed it to send to my friend Pat I realized I might like it better turned around to another direction. Now I have the line on the right side instead of the left or the top. It’s funny how photographing something can help you see it with a different perspective. I, also, photograph paintings and put them up on the computer to take myself away from being so close.

I may possibly glaze over it slightly with plain medium one more time…hum, and a tad more green if called for. Gotta be careful I don’t just end up with another painting though.

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