Announcing: Sugar Row Gallery Group Show

For the month of May I will be part of a group show at Sugar Row Gallery in Mineral:

Michael Donavan, Peter Flanary, Gerry Glaeve

Bill Grover, Rick Harris, Tom Kelly

Richard Moninski, Ben Russell, Carole Spelic

Sharon Stauffer, Chris Taw, Cindy ReynoldsTaylor

May 5th through May 27th, 2018

Opening Reception with Artists May 5th 4:30-7pm

Sugar Row Gallery

234 High Street

Mineral Point, Wi 53565

Open Weekdays by chance or appointment

Fridays and Saturdays 11-4:30 Sundays 11-4pm

www.sugarrowstudioandgallery.com

Encaustic Effects With Acrylics

In March I took a three day class at Shake Rag Alley with Bonnie Cutts learning to employ acrylic mediums to achieve encaustic effects.

Bonnie has been a Golden Acrylics Working Artist for years and as such, knows just about all there is to know about the bewildering array of Golden acrylic mediums and products. Bonnie explained how she often builds up many layers of acrylic medium on her paintings...and that consequently her paintings are often mistaken for encaustics.

Bonnie brought in a wide variety of paints and mediums for us to try and showed us which types of acrylic mediums are best for creating that desired encaustic translucent look. We each worked on several paintings at a time, building many, many layers.

Since the class I've experimented with using this encaustic effect on the background of my figurative collages. I collage a photocopy of a figurative drawing over the "encaustic" background and possibly add other collage elements as well.

Here a few examples -