Aerten Art

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In case you’re like me and have a hard time remembering the difference between stalactites and stalagmites… the stalactites are the ones that hang down from the ceilings of caves.
And in this cave (one more of my encaustic paintings), there several groupings of these lovely drippy [...]

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I must have had dinosaurs on my mind when I was naming the paintings of this batch, because here I saw part of a herd of triceratops.  (Did dinosaurs have herds?)  I might have recently watched Land Before Time.
This one was also painted [...]

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Most of my encaustic paintings are done using a single color of wax.  The thickness of the wax on the paper and the various designs etched into the wax often give the impression that I’m using several different colors.  Not so.
And I generally pick [...]

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This is another of my encaustics.
When I finished smearing with the iron, I thought the little shape towards the bottom looked like a house.  On a prairie.  On a Kanas prairie, to be precise.  Do you see where this is heading?
Yeah, those [...]