GeneralFancy

My Etsy store, GeneralFancy launched last year, um, some time before I packed up and moved to Asia for 7+ months.

Anyway, it's my project to get some smaller paintings out into the world. They are all about the price of a pair of covet-able shoes or a Summer dress but they don't hurt your feet or turn out to be too small next year.

So head to Etsy and check out a slew of my tiniest and most precious paintings. Drawings coming soooooooon!

Artomatic opens tomorrow.

Yesterday

Penelope

This painting was going swimmingly, it even had a title right out of the gate. Then all of a sudden I must have been hit with the "pay attention rock" and I looked down. NO!

 It broke a major rule. Here I was thinking it was nearly complete - a rare 2 day painting, what are the odds - but NO. Nope. It completely failed to become it's own place. It's just a thing and that thing is a painting. It's a goddamn pretty painting but not a place. If someone else painted it, well I would reject it. Tomorrow I'll see if I can coax it into transcending it's own stupid objecthood. 

Encaustic Painting Workshop

It's all business these days with me: full-time employment, passport applications, and failed canvases leading only to failed supply orders. The up side is that I will be going to Thailand in just under 5 months and I just finished a productive meeting with a good friend and WPA-DC staff member. We're in the planning stages of hosting a short encaustic workshop, hopefuly in June which will be free for their members. I will be volunteering 4 hours of instruction for 15-20 memebers. WPA is a great arts organization in DC, of which I am a member and it's the least I can do to help them provide a fun event for other members to enjoy. 4 hours is not even close to enough time to get a good grasp of painting with encaustic but at least I can answer some questions they may have, get tham started and lay the ground work for a potential follow-up session with more involved instruction and advanced techniques. Plus this is a great opportunity to excerise one of by favorite and most fun skills.



Topics covered will be: What a painter needs for a basic set up of encaustic painting in the studio, including safety and ventilation, techniques to get started, plus some info on collage/works on paper, sculptural applications, and other mixed media techniques.

Steps along the way

3 Cities & 4 Studios

2 Days After the Fur Arrived

Day 2 is as good as Day 1 when you get a box full of fur scraps in the mail. It's true a lovely box full of various trimmings, strips, and pieced together little bits of gorgeous animal fur arrived at my house on Valentine's day. Ecstasy for someone who has been trying in vain to find real animal fur suitable for use in paintings. Suitable means that it isn't skinned and tanned just for me and preferably it served some other, previous purpose or was otherwise salvaged. At a time when fur is actually stylish this has not been so easy to do. In this case these are sewing scraps from a nearby furrier which were too small for much of anything in the way of fashion items and he was kind of enough to pass them along for other uses. I couldn't be happier.