Aerten Art

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This is a Thanksgiving piece.  What I see here is a highway stretching off into the distance, trees on the left and mountains on the right.  Up ahead is a tunnel.  I’m pretending it’s the Eisenhower Tunnel on Interstate 70 west of Denver.
It’s [...]

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This is another of those serendipitous encaustic paintings.  I was just playing around, smearing and smacking and dragging and wiggling the wax-laden iron all over the paper… and this is what came about.
I see an atypical farmhouse beyond the ridge; it looks vaguely Japanese in [...]

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When I use most of the blue encaustic paints, I tend to think of the resulting paintings as views from under the sea… rather than pictures of alien worlds.  But I suppose the oceans could be considered alien worlds, couldn’t they?  People don’t go down [...]

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Alone is not the same as loneliness.  Alone is solitude, quiet reflection and peacefulness.  Alone is time for meditation and art.  Alone is time for me.
Alone is a 2″ x 3″ encaustic painting, matted with a white ribbed matted and framed in a 5″ x 7″ [...]