Saturday, March 6, 2010

Paintings in a Day















Well two paintings in a day. Even though it's amazing outside, I really wanted to work in the studio. So I did! I created both of these paintings today. Felt good to just crank something out. Just creating for the sake of creating. They are not perfect but met the needs I had today.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Scholastic is over - back to being an artist





I've managed to find a little more time now that Scholastic is over to create some art. Good thing, I need to have three pieces ready by Feb 1st to enter into the LO Festival of the Arts juried show. This years special exhibit will be encaustic art. Very exciting. So, I have two pieces I know I'm going to enter and I really want to finish this one. I work on it a bit this weekend and like the direction it's going, just need to work out a few kinks. Really enjoying the positive/negative play with the wax. Any thoughts or suggestions?

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Weekend with Art Teachers




What a great weekend. I went to Redmond, Oregon for the state art educators conference. I made four presentations, showing off our amazing blogspots, our website and talking about Scholastic. At the end of the day I finally got to make some art. I went to a nifty workshop about beeswax, a subject near and dear to my heart. Instead of making a painting I made this creepy fetus beeswax necklace. I wore it all night in Redmond at a local pub and boy were those cowboys confused. Fun!! On Saturday I attended an all day watercolor class, Karen you would have loved it! Anyway what I made turned out pretty cool, I love the complimentary color scheme and the line quality. I'm looking forward to seeing you on Monday.

Ms. McB

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Local 14



Well it's been a log time since I have been nervous about anything and I was nervous about participating in this show. Seven of my BFF's came out on Thursday to support me and see the rest of the work. The show really is wonderful, female artist rock! I'm happy with how my work is showing and proud of what I was able to accomplish. There is a show coming up I would like to encourage you all to participate in, it's the Beaverton Visual Arts Showcase. When the deadline comes up I'll let you know about it. I think we have a ton of work that would be amazing in this show. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Here are some pictures of the Local 14 show.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

It's like Chicken heaven!




I'm frantically getting ready for the Local 14 show and I feel like I'm in chicken heaven. I'm surrounded by chickens both real and encaustic. I hope that some of you can come to the show. Here are a few of the newbies. The one of Wilma is done now. Just don't have a new picture yet. She's my favorite chicken.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Double Whamee


Two shows in less than a week. Great week for Ms. McBride. I was accepted as a guest artist for the Local 14 show in October, www.local14.org And I just found out that my work will also be in the juried show for the Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts. Wahoo!

I better get into the studio and start working!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Who Inspires Me?

Lately I have been drawn to local artist Andrea Benson. I met Andrea at an IEA meeting. IEA is a group of encaustic artists who get together monthly to talk about hot wax! Andreas work is feminine, yet strong. She uses papers that she makes to create patterns in her figures. Her work is figurative, which I tend to be drawn to because I feel like it's not something I do well. I would like to do it well but struggle. Andrea has a thing about hands. They are so expressive. Perhaps the way to tackle the figure is to pick a part of the figure that I want to focus on, like Andrea's hands. I appreciate the simplicity of her work. I've found that with encaustic if you overwork the media it tends to be not as cooperative.
















Two weekends from now I will be attending a workshop on encaustic painting taught by Portland artist Elise Wagner. Very exciting. http://www.elisewagner.com/ She is represented by Butters Gallery and I had the privledge of seeing her show recently. Elise has recently been working out her facination with how science and art collide. The atmosphere she creates in her work is fantastic, some of these are massive. I really want to know how to paint big with encaustic. I feel confined by the 12" x 12" substrates. Although you can't see it here many of her works are almost glowing. She has found a way to honor the luminosity of encaustic and still 'paint.' She has or seems to have complete control over the media. How does she create those loopy lines? They look encised and filled, then scraped. What a long process! I would love to get in her head and find out what she knows about encaustic. Tricks of the trade.