A Hint of Mystery

Here's another encaustic mixed media piece

 from my exploration last weekend.

It combines layers of clear wax, 

a touch of red, yellow-gold and lots 

of titanium white encaustic paint, 

layered handmade paper with Asian chop

 and medallion images, and layered text 

printed on tissue paper with words like

hidden knowledge

soul

sacred energies

Atop all these layers of paper and wax, 

all fused to the board one at a time with a heat gun,

I distressed the surface, 

then rubbed it with graphite. 

I removed the excess graphite 

with super-fine steel wool.

Voilà - the finished piece.

The way I see it,

it never hurts to embed a bit of soul

and a lot of sacred energy

into an art piece.