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Sunday, November 18, 2012

I need containers

I was fortunate to win a give-away on the Cloth, Paper, Scissors blog. It was like Christmas when they arrived ….  encaustic materials including two instructional DVDs, ExtravOrganza (printable silk sheets,) 12 colors of Jacquard’s PearlEx powdered pigments, some encaustic medium and a book, The Encaustic Studio by Daniella Woolf.

The package arrived late afternoon so that evening I sat down and watched the first one instead of the news. Not much good news anyway. 

I’d done a couple encaustics previously at my friend Annie Morgan’s  studio. This is one I did there with a lot of direction from Annie.

encaustic 1

The DVD and the rest of the treasures inspired me. The next day I spent the day playing with encaustics and here are the results…

Listen to Grace hark the herald angels sing side view of encaustic

That night I watched the second DVD and now there are even more ideas floating around in my head which brings me to needing containers. This morning I started reading Daniella's book and it struck a chord. She responds to so many things and ideas come at her at such a pace that she is sometimes paralyzed so she has to set parameters, containers she calls them. She was talking about me but I haven’t learned to set those parameters and find myself going in circles way too often.

Am I too old? I taught myself to become a morning person after we won’t say how many years of being a night person. An aside, when I was first forcing myself to get up early my neighbor was over for dessert and we were talking about it. She said she noticed I was up very early one night when she got up about 4 in the morning and I was in my studio already. She didn’t realize it but she was talking about a time when I was still a night person. I’m not in my studio at 4 in the morning anymore but I might be there by 5:30.

So my task… determine some parameters and stick with them for a month. I’m going to give myself some time to think about it. Ideas are already floating around in my head… color and subject keep popping up. One thought is green. I’m a blue person, if it’s blue I’m gonna love it and if there is one color I don’t like, it’s green. Maybe I need to spend a month getting to know green a bit better. Who knows, I may learn to like it.

3 comments:

NonnyKor Kudel said...

well, bummmmer, i was going to send you a big box of plastic containers WITH LIDS til i read the whole thing.... so what you need is withOUT lids, free floats.... i'm at a desperation point of having to change my internal clock... can you give a blog on how you did that??..Kor

Helen Percy Lystra said...

Kori, they say a new habit can be formed in 6 weeks... they aren't dealing with old folks like us, it takes a lot longer. I forced myself to go to bed before 11 and get up before 6. It was #%!! but I did it. Took almost a year but I now wake up somewhere between 5 and 6 in the morning.

Joan Tavolott said...

Encaustics may be a fairly new medium for you but your style really shows through in these. They are great!