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Encaustic Collage Three Balloons • 24” x 24” • This piece and the story behind it are included in my book, Finding Myself in Salvaged Layers. It incorporates various wallpapers and decorative papers. The balloons were made by using a circular cookie cutter as a form and pouring molten wax into it, then cooled carefully before lifting off the cookie cutter. Its inspiration was from a childhood memory of seeing balloons for the first time at the age of five and being enthralled by them. A clown handing out the balloons frightened my younger sister. It was the only vacation day my mother ever had. She and my Aunt drove fifty miles from our home to Lakeside Amusement Park in Roanoke. Memories percolate up from some deep pool place. Some good, some bad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/91d8f495-7db6-45e6-9d69-f56d8f51b418/Ninas-Owl.png Gallery - Encaustic Collage Nina’s Owl • 4” x 15” • Includes paper napkins, ribbon, magazine page cutouts, string, found objects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/25674dc4-e4a6-4e04-a6a0-1a060d8704dd/Trees.png Gallery - Encaustic Collage Trees • This was my very first attempt at encaustic wax collage. I used dried, pressed leaves at the top. While cleaning ink off a brayer by rolling it repeatedly over a paper towel, it left marks that reminded me of trees and I used that paper towel below the dried leaves. A found trash piece that was a first proof of an etching on blank newsprint is below the towel and a magazine photo of a tree is at the bottom. The blue-black paper is part of a failed monotype. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/e04f0c4a-15c7-4821-b7e4-1ebb105175ab/Untitled-1.png Gallery - Encaustic Collage Untitled • This is an example of when I begin to add color in a restricted palette to my pieces. On the right-hand side is a strip of red wallpaper.; a trash-find drawing cut into small sections is at the bottom and the left has a strip of shredded light blue paper—also a trash find in the art secretary’s office. Toward the middle, to top, is a negative of a south-western landscape used upside down in an abstract way that was found in the trash in the photography department. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/dee36642-1d74-4329-8237-55ebac55e115/DSCN3117+Slowly+Sifting+up+from+the+Pool+of+Intent+1+2+3+.png Gallery - Encaustic Collage Slowly Sifting Up from the Pool of Intent 1, 2 and 3 • This group came from dreams I was having while reading a spiritual book on the power of intention. I intended it to be a triptych and sold as one but priced each piece separately also. The two end pieces sold the next day after hanging it in the gallery but the center piece did not sell which was shocking as they were priced the same. The center piece took fifty times longer to accomplish as each dot was glued on to it. I have since decided to keep it for reference to a whole series of which I call my lasagna series. The two end pieces—1 and 3—have white pages from a telephone book on the bottom. We used then to clean off the oil etching ink from our brayers in printmaking class I liked the patterns they made and kept them and have incorporated them into many art pieces. Above the paper is all wax with incised patterns cut in and filled with a blue oil paint stick, then wiped the surface clean with canola oil. I used a sewing tool that makes ditty-dot-dot marks. Over the telephone pages I layered the wax up with a stencil of packing material and then caught the high points with the same blue oil paint stick. Then one coat of clear wax to seal. The centerpiece—2—was made of a lot of different kinds of wall papers. A local interior designer gives me wallpaper books and fabric sample books that are discontinued and destined to the landfill. It is treasure. I slice all the pages out of the books. There is an inch left in the heavy cardboard binders stapled with heavy industrial staples and it takes a LOT to get them all apart! But I cannot bear to waste it so I spend hours prizing it all apart with a chisel and pliers. There are ragged holes where the staples were and I use a punch to punch a clean hole then randomly punch the rest of the strip. I started at the bottom using a limited color palate of red black and white. I try hard to not use the entire pattern of the wallpaper as some artist somewhere designed the paper thus its art in my mind. I use them like [paints to paint a new picture. In the end I was happy but used the punched hole circles to carry the color around where I wanted it, unifying the piece. The same design that is on 1 and 3 is at the bottom of 2. Many happy hours went into this piece. I will do more of this style in future and hope to have it turned into fabrics and wallpaper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/6563ee68-5608-4d57-9d15-21779c663096/Slowly-Sifting-left.png Gallery - Encaustic Collage Slowly Sifting Up from the Pool of Intent 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1fde0896-e6ee-4d40-8b23-7328dc0c4f86/Untitled-3.png Gallery - Encaustic Collage Untitled 3 • This piece started out as a monotype that I was not happy with. I turned it into an encaustic wax collage using rubber-band hair elastics. The bottom is an encaustics technique called accretion in which wax is layered up on the surface. 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(R and F Paints) Thin Japanese papers are my favorite for wax monotypes. https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/gallery/mixedmedia-collage monthly 0.5 2022-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/51d5707a-bed7-4d70-9cf4-16207bcf37dc/100_1670.jpg Gallery - Mixed-Media Collage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/2ff9015a-3e93-4eba-9fe7-f27ec5eda194/100_1672.jpg Gallery - Mixed-Media Collage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1c3a1120-5e32-493d-bce2-aa512d126498/100_1669+copy.jpg Gallery - Mixed-Media Collage Flailing the Angel • 6’ x 4’ • Mixed-media on Masonite, oil paint, feathers, wax, costume jewelry, burlap, tin, photographs. • This piece was done in a visiting professor’s class while I was at Hollins. I had seen Thayer’s Angel oil painting at the Smithsonian Museum in D.C. and was gob smacked at the detail of her dress. This piece came to me in a series of dreams I had off and on all summer after the trip. That fall, I decided to take the collage class taught by the visiting professor so I could attempt to make it. We butted heads all semester over it. She wanted me to put many photos of my father over the surface, peeking out from the beer cans, and to flatten the metal can pieces that I had so laboriously cut out, intentionally ragged. I stepped back three feet from her when she suggested that before I gave her a piece of my mind. “You obviously do not get what this piece is about. I would never elevate him above her heart and head! The jagged tin is a metaphor for the danger my mother, siblings and I lived in constantly!” I lost all respect for her at that moment and decided I would listen to my inner voice no matter what grade I ended up with. Additionally, she was of no help on the mechanics of what glue to use to get the effect I wanted with the dress. I wanted it to stand out from the surface so I soaked the burlap in glue then held it in place until it dried. A glue gun worked for the beer can shards. I bought two cases of the beer and gagged the entire time I poured it down the drain. Then I used metal snips and spent several days cutting up the cans. The belt is a broken piece of my mother’s costume jewelry. I tried to envision how feathers would be attached to a scaffolding and used bits of a beeswax candle for that. Feathers were dipped in red oil paint. The photo of my mother was taken at Radford University at my sister’s graduation. We are standing in front of the fountain in the center of campus and the refracted light from it surrounds my mother like a halo in the photo. She died that night. I always saw my mother as an angel and saint. This piece is based on a poem I have written and pieces of the poem are tucked into the folds of the dress. I painted her arms, hands and neck with oil paint to look bruised, as she always was from my father’s weekly beatings. I wanted to give this piece to the Roanoke Rescue Mission but the CEO thought it might trigger trauma in those who are trying to heal from alcoholism. I respected that. The other place it might do some good is the art therapy department of the Carillion Medical School. Perhaps I was supposed to keep it so I could share it here. It is an example of how cathartic making art can be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/ce62cdf5-aa20-41bb-bab0-682d78dcf97a/IMG_0933.JPG Gallery - Mixed-Media Collage Fabric City-Scapes 1 • During the Covid lockdown, I decided to make art using all the fabric scraps my professor and friend, Nancy Dahlstrom, had given to me over the years. This was the result. I had mat board in every color imaginable that I had scavenged from the trashcans at Hollins during the seven years I was there. So even the substrate is salvaged material. Other than the fabrics, there are some slices of magazine pages in these collages. I am not a city person at all. My husband and I had just been to New York City to see the Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums. It was my first visit to each of them and the trip was still on my mind. These works became Christmas presents for Nancy and two other friends from Hollins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/88915951-1411-4928-9bbe-65fcdd561d14/IMG_0936.JPG Gallery - Mixed-Media Collage Fabric City-Scapes 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/565f1977-6bbd-478e-850a-e40eba78923e/IMG_1052.JPG Gallery - Mixed-Media Collage Fabric City-Scapes 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/7e6fb2b7-f1c0-402e-9088-8168cd5e4dc5/DSCN3111+Crow+in+the+City.png Gallery - Mixed-Media Collage Crow in the City • Paper collage on mat board • Newspaper, hand inked papers, drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/593c2921-97e0-4be4-afb5-a4bb9a9cbee9/johns+trees.png Gallery - Mixed-Media Collage John’s Trees • Collage • Hand-inked paper, decorative paper, mounted on mat board • Thank you, visiting professor, for telling me my painting sucked. “The quality of the paint is poor,” she said. This assessment moved me to cover the painting with bits of paper created by inking sheets of paper at the end of a long art-making day in the printmaking lab. I loathed wasting the ink on the glass table after I was done so I treated myself to playtime and came up with some magical printed papers and mat board pieces, both trash finds. I first cut the papers into free-form contorted rectangles, triangles, squares and crescent shapes. I pasted them over the rough painting underneath (that so offended), not letting the pieces touch, allowing a reveal the “poor paint” below. I found I liked what the pieces were becoming. The pattern was intricate and had a motion not achieved with just paint. I started at the bottom and worked upwards. Finding just the right paper from my stash was fairly easy as I have a n eye for color matching. I always stuck to the color of the background underpainting. Only for the darkest green part of the trees and the darkest brown earth color did I use bought decorative paper. It is work I can fall into and get lost—my reason for being creative. I would cut a small pile of pieces in the color I needed, then turn them all right side up. I had an epiphany. Each small piece was its very own individual work of art. Each lovely in its own way and I found myself loving them. I took the time to admire each one like a precious flower. Some pieces were not inked up very well but I found they had a role to play, too and fit into just at the right spot. And it occurred to me that my little pieces were a lot like people in many ways; all unique, all beautiful in their individual way. Even pieces not perfect fit in somewhere and had usefulness; a place. Soon it went even faster, this method of finding the right piece for the right spot. I was conscious of going to the cut pile, picking a random piece, gluing, then without thought going straight to the spot “they wanted to be.” “So is this where you want to be? Okay!” I even said it out loud several times as the piece fit perfectly size wise and color wise. Nine out of ten times it fit perfectly and I began to trust that this would happen most of the time. It went quickly and time fell away. https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/gallery/oil-paintings monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/eb404615-406c-4078-9427-ceb761da9cf0/IMG_3258.png Gallery - Oil Paintings Azaleas • 48” x 48” • This was the last painting I did in Denny Arrant’s class before my rotator cuff surgery. I call it barely-representational-abstract style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/d4129427-00b2-4afb-991b-b1be690ff7f3/Cottage-Garden.png Gallery - Oil Paintings Cottage Garden • This was an early piece from my first painting class with Denny Arrant. My sister now owns it as she begged for years to have it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/0f877689-947f-4903-bdb2-13f3d8882c2e/Jazz-Notes.png Gallery - Oil Paintings Jazz Notes and the Underlying Rhythm • Another piece done in Denny Arrant’s class. We were listening to jazz music and the assignment was soft edge abstract. https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/gallery/galaxia-series monthly 0.5 2022-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/37f8be15-0dbe-47c2-b860-8ba81259de42/Galaxia.png Gallery - Galaxia Series Galaxia • Monoprint • The difference between a monotype and a monoprint is this that monotypes are single editions. In a monoprint there is some element that is repeated in more than one piece; in this case it is a solar print etching—the dark rectangular image that you can see repeated in Galaxia 2 and Galaxia 3. I went through a period where I was entranced by circles and they showed up in my work in various ways. To get the above-mentioned solar print etching, I scanned an image from a magazine of the inner workings of a hydroelectric dam then printed it on Mylar. The Mylar is laid over a solar plate and the plate is exposed to either sunlight or exposed to a light in a photo lab wherein exposure is more controlled. I have used retired sander belts and textured wallpapers cut in circles in these pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/a8e220c4-bab1-4e8d-83ac-3e1606944a7b/Galaxia-2.png Gallery - Galaxia Series Galaxia 2 • Monoprint • Chine-collé solar plate image and hand-inked papers on a ghost monotype print. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/2d6d630f-e04c-4c77-9fe0-bd0bd8196d19/Galaxia-3.png Gallery - Galaxia Series Galaxia 3 • Monoprint https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/42b0202d-f1df-4041-ad7b-2d137aa605f0/Galaxia-4.png Gallery - Galaxia Series Galaxia 5 • Monotype • Handmade papers chine-colléd to the surface. The background is a ghost print of one of the other Galaxias. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/04112d5e-efca-4917-a1ed-81108dd23238/Galaxia-5.png Gallery - Galaxia Series Galaxia 6 • Monotype • Handmade papers chine-colléd to the surface. As with Galaxia 5, there is a ghost print used here of one of the other Galaxias. https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/gallery/quilt-series monthly 0.5 2022-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/e9fbe9ed-f565-45b5-85ba-9bf98c289c84/Quilt-Red-Blue.jpg Gallery - Quilt Series Quilt in Red and Blue • Monotype https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/372f5498-ffc9-4997-a4ec-0f937192c2d7/Quilt-Pink-Green.jpg Gallery - Quilt Series Quilt in Pink and Green • Monotype https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/a5ae87bc-6cbe-4744-a508-d0c1634face9/Quilt-Greys-Red.jpg Gallery - Quilt Series Quilt in Reds and Greys • Monotype https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/29b5ae0a-16e9-4e2e-b165-c00b37741185/Quilt-Muted-Color.jpg Gallery - Quilt Series Quilt in Muted Color • Monotype https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/c3a2265b-b2c6-454c-97ad-e9b5354d0a15/Puzzle-Quilt.jpg Gallery - Quilt Series Puzzle Quilt • Monotype • I used puzzle pieces to emboss the paper as well as traditional monotype processes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/3d23f4d1-3cf5-476e-a850-376ce4b28fba/Quilt-Puzzle.jpg Gallery - Quilt Series Quilt Puzzle • Monotype • The background here is a ghost print from Puzzle Quilt. I painted ink on a plexi plate in a painterly way and inked up the paper through the press, then I used solar cut up plate etchings and chine-colléd to the surface. https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/gallery/monoprints monthly 0.5 2022-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/d0cd9118-8ec1-4af8-b5c1-067926ace734/Lets-Play.png Gallery - Monoprints Let’s Play • Monoprint • There are embedded solar plate etchings of me and my sister as children, chine-colléd to surface along with toys cut out of paper napkins. I inked up string and used in the monoprint. This is very playful and was fun to do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/afc8166e-9174-45c0-b9a3-c09eedf27903/Lets-Play-CU.jpg Gallery - Monoprints Let's Play • Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/06ac5ca9-b2e8-4d34-9b2f-7035b3715ac9/Childhood-Memories.png Gallery - Monoprints Childhood Memories • Solar plate etchings on the backs of puzzle pieces from the dollar store. • It is not archival and I would never sell such pieces, but this was done for myself at the end of the semester when I was out of paper and money and it gave me permission to experiment. It could be replicated by cutting out mat board in the shapes of puzzle pieces and printing which would be archival. I was working with aspects of memory that are fuzzy, disjointed, and sometimes clear and it works as a metaphor for piecing together memory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/61206571-d76b-47d0-becb-96ac7d8f1e3f/Fuzzy-Memories-1.png Gallery - Monoprints Fuzzy Memories 1 • Monoprint • Solar plate image chine-colléd to mat board and punched-out handmade papers. I love using the negative of punched out pieces in my work. They act like little windows and add a layered look. I used stamps in this piece also. The background in a monotype done with inked up fancy fringed yarns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/dc3c1d8e-d232-4023-85ba-faa25549dcb6/Fuzzy-Memories-2.png Gallery - Monoprints Fuzzy Memories 2 • Solar plate image chine-colléd to mat board and decorative papers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/4c7006be-c196-4632-b23c-7ea89baf5b8f/Untitled-Monoprint-Solar-Etching.png Gallery - Monoprints https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/e0e11eea-f148-4a9c-9a85-30a65e725097/Big-Tummies.png Gallery - Monoprints Big Tummies • Monoprint with solar plate etching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/aeffe00f-ff90-4a2b-9b74-7237b23eef4c/Big-Tummies-CU.png Gallery - Monoprints Big Tummies • Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/7ab25dfe-6eac-4d49-aba9-50c98602bdae/Peonies.png Gallery - Monoprints Peonies • Layered monotype on rice paper. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/acbcc319-a4ba-4e44-a78b-8f9c977d0f1f/Tree-of-Life.png Gallery - Monoprints Tree of Life • Monotype with chine-collé. https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/gallery/muslin-series monthly 0.5 2022-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/be3389a5-ea8b-4e33-b03d-30f20c2f43dd/Scraps-of-Memory.png Gallery - Muslin Series Scrap of Memory • This is the first piece that I printed on muslin. I bought four yards of it at Joann’s Fabrics fairly cheaply. I also bought various kinds of interfacing materials and linen and experimented printing on them also. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/d0205029-69ed-4bb4-8d56-656985a25e3b/Pieced-Memory.png Gallery - Muslin Series Pieced Memory • Solar plate etchings on muslin. Quilts inspired this piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/26c85767-36ec-4076-97b2-3f4187bbf817/Pieced-Memory-CU1.png Gallery - Muslin Series Pieced Memory • Detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/d27080cd-fd95-4d40-b9a5-e22e99a5a76e/Pieced-Memory-CU2.png Gallery - Muslin Series Pieced Memory • Detail https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/encaustic-studio daily 0.75 2022-01-21 https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/encaustic-studio/encaustic-resources monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1642545991226-5RS0FG1YECY38RSEQ7U3/J_3176-67-cube.jpg Encaustic Studio - Encaustic Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1642604852433-NZC7YQP8F38AFAYDKE2V/B_3168-47-cube.jpg Encaustic Studio - Encaustic Resources https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1642871145296-FZ809GFPW1FI9DJ0AX5Q/O_3169-49-cube.jpg Encaustic Studio - Encaustic Resources https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/encaustic-studio/my-studio monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1642546832023-P6E1YZ83G2UDX652RII2/Encaustic%2BPaints.jpg Encaustic Studio - My Studio Encaustic Paints These are a few of the encaustic paints on my tabletop next to the pancake griddle I use to melt the wax into a liquid form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/7702505e-4898-40aa-9469-bc890df9b0e2/Encaustic+Wax+Studio+One.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio My love of salvaging includes this very old red table I found in an antique store. IKEA drawers live under it for storing wax and tools. Good ventilation is imperative when working with wax so, note the fan in the window sill. I turn it backwards so it pulls air from the room. Always have the window open even in winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/13cceca6-3076-487a-99c4-2c8ad4d295ed/Encaustics+Paints+Three.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio Many items live on the window sill to give me inspiration. The shaving cream brush was my grandfathers. I use it to dust off papers. There is a beeswax cake in the shape of a hexagon with an embossed bee in the middle that reminds me of the source of my art-making wax. I collect antique stamps and letterpress stamps. A forty-five RPM record insert brings back many memories and reminds me of the music that was a balm for my teenage years. The shape is inspiring and it will find its way into monotype pieces in the future. My childhood glass teddy bear bank lives on the sill and wooden alphabet blocks that I now use as stamps in printmaking. Magnolia seed pods that I used as reference for a linocut and other dried natural materials including a wasp nest are there. Of the most significance, however, is the Cranberry Tea box. When I had my first show at Hollins a young student bought eleven of my art pieces while I was hanging the show. She went to an ATM machine and withdrew money in twenty-dollar increments and rolled it up and put it in this box to give me as payment. Her faith in my work astounded me then and has never left me. It was my first show and most of the pieces sold at the opening and shortly after the rest sold. It was an “ah ha moment.” My artwork had something to say about the world and it had resonated with people. I kept the tea box to remind me of this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/a2ac5d09-95a3-4e4a-8489-cd6bbbc58e1c/studio+Four.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio I use clear plastic containers with lids that I purchase at the Dollar Tree store. I store my art-making stash in them and label them with my Martha Stewart label gun. They sit on top of a metal file drawer set that I traded artwork with another artist for. It houses printmaking paper, decorative papers, collographs I have made, etching plates, linocuts and stamps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/5885df92-50d9-4354-b921-d6ccfbad0f61/Encaustics+Paints+Two.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/961c0eaf-554d-4d53-a141-e4260236b6d8/Inspiration+two.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio Inspirational words have power! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/639fbfe0-2cf4-4da4-b916-7993761114a7/Studio+storage+Five.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio This room is a 10’ x 10’ space. The size of some people's closets. I use every inch of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/6267481a-0f86-42cd-87ad-8dea18372a87/Studio+three.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio My table top is covered in a sheet of glass so I can scavenge bits of wax for reuse. It gives me the opportunity to put cards and inspirational words underneath it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1642547704985-R90ZIUFD9GS4SRSZN8ST/Studio%2BWallpaper%2Btreasure.jpg Encaustic Studio - My Studio On the floor are some high end wallpaper books that a local interior designer gave to me. They were destined for the landfill and he was very happy they would have a new life in my artworks. I use them in most of my printmaking and encaustic works. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/6b0f8a7d-ae47-4917-953a-4deb446f3bcf/Texture+Tools.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio My father had a horse when I was growing up and this curry comb that I found in an antique store reminds me of my childhood. I use it as a mark-making tool in the soft wax. Cookie cutters, copper scouring pads, spatulas, sewing tools and any manner of items make great mark-making tools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/9b3efada-e1ad-4715-bc39-5a25d059636e/Inspiration+one.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1d6d9e46-100b-4172-8e21-52b75fff68aa/Studio+Organization.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/0860c354-d7d9-4fa2-8ff3-4637875c661d/scrap+paper+collograph.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio Scrap Paper Collograph • This colograph is made with slivers of scrap wallpapers glued down to a plexi plate. In the bottom left corner is an alphabet letter stamp made with peel and stick letters and a round wood substrate—both from Michaels. In the bottom right corner is a cloth fabric flower shape glued to a substrate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/9798facf-54a1-4987-9ca3-ee374baf4b0d/Handmade+stamps.JPG Encaustic Studio - My Studio Handmade Stamp • It can be lots of fun making your own stamps. I have used various flat objects and glued them to cork coasters from the Dollar Tree, wood substrate cubes and knobs from Michaels, and wood flooring samples and Corian samples from Lowes. Some are scrapbooking items, others are laser cut wood patterns from Michaels. They sell craft foam with a peel off backing so you can cut your own shapes or use the shapes they sell. https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/encaustic-studio/art-quotes monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/encaustic-studio/encaustic-history monthly 0.5 2022-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1642539135265-2VUXIDRBWBMRX3TMG983/V_3183-97-cube.jpg Encaustic Studio - Encaustic History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1642539337635-S8WUZUF9TIC3QETL89Y2/F_2790-31-cube.jpg Encaustic Studio - Encaustic History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/1642604760809-LB30D36RWHT7SENKJQFI/G_3154-79-cube.jpg Encaustic Studio - Encaustic History https://www.sharonmirtaheriart.com/encaustic-texture-tools daily 0.75 2022-01-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/d06e111d-e47d-4458-b81c-a5fdba3e4b3f/IMG_0694.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools I collect metal floral frog trees in different shapes and sizes that make similar marks. The three long metal strips I found at Lowes and they are used in flooring or wall boarding I believe. They work like a stencil. A rectangular wire grid and the chicken wire in the background were also found at Lowes. The clear plastic square is plastic for putting under table legs. The round object on the far left is a lid off a Tupperware picture. A copper pot scrubber from Dollar Tree beside it works well for scratching up the surface for random mark making and texture. The red plastic rectangle is a lid from a perfume bottle and the red spiral I found at an antique store; no idea what its use was. A wooden dowel is behind it and rolled over the surface of the wax makes a continuous mark. I made a tool with hard cardboard and the metal spiral that is in notebooks by sliding it over the cardboard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/ee30671f-2eba-497c-8ef6-30e87ea4d09f/IMG_0695.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools The four navy circles was packing material as was the plastic iron board shape with slots standing up in the back of the photo. The flower is a napkin ring holder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/467ad697-dc58-4e5c-aa1c-f14dc289413e/IMG_0698.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools The circles are lids off of Tupperware. The black spool from thread is one of my favorite mark making tools as is the bundle of dried natural materials that is used to stir tea. Keep in mind that it is more difficult to remove the wax from plastic than metal. I put plastic pieces in the freezer for an hour and it usually pops right off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/2a546367-121c-4de2-92e3-f4fc6d2bc599/IMG_0702.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools I found the cake pan in the back at an antique store. What a treasure! The raised design is on the inside and the back. I have used it to impress into the warm wax and also to do pencil rubbings for collage work. The oval metal in front of it has spikes and the rectangle is a cookie cutter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/333658be-b046-48c3-8466-b17552b5771f/IMG_0704.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools I found these two gears on a vacation in an antique store. When rolled over the surface they many of them. The heart is a baking mold, the carved metal rectangle in front used to be on someone’s front door and I do rubbings from it and also impress into wax for the intricate pattern. The circle piece far right is more modern and used for coring apples. Far left is a mini triangular grater. Far right top is a curved metal with bars I use to roll over the wax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/9a2a9caf-1ddc-41a0-b334-9ee9c85e500c/IMG_0707.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools These are all antique kitchen tools. It is amazing how many patterns spatulas come in. I have a dozen different ones. Simply press into warm wax to get the pattern on the surface. The spurred tool I think is for pastry or pasta making. The red-handled tool far right is an old knife sharpener. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/897205ed-6f68-4103-80fa-274e7ff06fe4/IMG_0708.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools A pizza cutter with curvy serrated edges, from antique store. The green tool is a sewing tool and makes ditty-dot-dot lines and my number one favorite tool. You can do an entire drawing on the surface of the wax with this tool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/e2517424-5304-4e39-97d8-ba5a0d7a62ae/IMG_0709.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools The three yellow handled tools are for whipping eggs but make flower marks when pressed into the wax. The top two flower shapes are used making specialty cookies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/c32bc9a4-139a-4ab2-9aaa-ad9882cf9d45/IMG_0710.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools Two spatula whipping tools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/934f4d04-8fe2-4c8c-b6dd-06fe6069bcb4/IMG_0713.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools Top left is an insert for a cake pan. Far right is another specialty cookie press. Bottom left is a horse curry comb. And wow check out that spatula! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/bda31da1-bb77-4348-8f81-a1a158689008/IMG_0714.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools I have no idea what the tool on the right was for but it has long lines with serrated edges; great mark making. The disk tool might be for slicing boiled eggs. Another heavy metal tool with a hexagon shape’ perfect metaphor mark for working with bees wax. I envision a large area of a future art piece done with this tool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/56e851ef-fc25-4d02-a37b-a625a6c591e1/IMG_0715.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools This fan-shaped tool is used for draining water from a pot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/471c7f00-4bcd-4a3b-a05c-d404b4a3fddf/IMG_0719.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools Very unusual find! This is apiece that was inside a player piano. The back side has sharp metal edges that can put the pattern on the wax surface. I also bought the player piano music sheets that are paper with cutouts in them for notes and I use the paper in my collages too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d5e0569ecaac048c0fd17d/295e54ab-8f62-4262-933c-c4003ec9d84c/IMG_0720.JPG Encaustic Texture Tools A strainer of some sort. Great for adding circular patterns to the wax. It can be done two ways. Impress the entire piece into warm wax or use as a stencil and run a brush of wax over to build up a pattern on the surface.