Summer Art

This summer I took a class with Anderea Benson. She is and Encaustic and Mixed Media artist in Portland. She taught us how to do encaustics. I ended up really liking it. The wax was weird to work with at first because the flame would move it around. But i liked that it would make it more abstract. I really want to work with encaustics more and see how far I can take it. I think it would be really cool to work with encaustics as part of my concentration. I love the way Anderea is able to make people look realistic by using paper rather that carving everything. I'm looking forward to seeing where encaustics will take me!