Aerten Art

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 a Thanksgiving piece because I think of Thanksgiving as a time of [...]

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 style.  In the foreground, there’s a just-picked radish or turnip [...]

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 there much, and even if they do, they need specialized [...]

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″ silver frame.
Again, the scan just doesn’t do this one [...]