Aerten Art

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When I first painted this one, I thought it looked like some kind of weird landscape.  An awful lot of my encaustics seem to look like weird landscapes to me.  But now I think it might look more like St. George fighting the dragon.  Or Anakin [...]

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After yesterday’s creepiness, I thought something bright and cheerful would be good for today.
This one looks like I dabbed paint down with a sponge, which is something I occasionally do with watercolors or acrylics, but it doesn’t work very well with encaustics.  When painting encaustics, it’s [...]

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Nope, I have no idea what I was thinking.  I might have been using the wire brush that attaches to the small wand-like handle.  (Said handle heats up whichever attachment is attached… the wire brush, a tiny iron or a pen-like tip.)
People at the art and [...]

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This probably isn’t the most appropriate painting to be sharing at this time of year.  It’s not like it isn’t already cold enough outside (or inside, for that matter).
This could be a painting of a cold, icy planet… or a representation of how I [...]