The first part of this project is described in this post: https://steemit.com/aakom/@in2itiveart/encaustic-experiment-5-a-longer-project...
It started with this drawing:
I have done a few of these paintings over the years, where I feel it is a self-portrait and I separate the elements into 3D in order to show that it is merely a moment in time in which you see them together, and see them as part of each other... The Bird, The Mermaid, The Winged Heart, and The Feather...
The Bird is freedom... i am the Mermaid - i am Libra Sun with Cancer Moon, an Artist, The Winged Heart is the Holy Spirit and my heart, and The Feather is what I offer to the World which comes from God through my Freedom...
It came as the result of a question....what is it that I fear? Right now, I am facing some spiritual blocks that I am in the process of tearing down. I did this piece to represent end goal of that process...
These images are a theme... i did my first bird painting back in 1989 when I too the intuitive painting class. When it shows up, it means I am about to transform again. That's good because I am growing too old for this skin.
here's the first painting of this theme, I did in 2013-14: in this drawing, i felt that the woman and the bird needed to be shown separate and together: and then I did it again in this piece
I did it again in this piece in 2014:
And here again...I separated the elements:
i made them 3D by gluing them to cardboard of different thicknesses...
then using a combination of modpodge and encaustic, I began to glue them to the substrate
then I used oil paint, oil pastels and the heat gun with a narrow tip to apply the background colors:
I use art and symbolism to speak to my subconscious while I am processing through some growth. It helps my subconscious tell my conscious what I need to offer to God for Him to remove from me, so that I may better do His work.
https://steemit.com/artzone/@in2itiveart/my-first-experiment-with-encaustic-1 https://steemit.com/artzone/@in2itiveart/experiment-in-encaustic-part-2a https://steemit.com/artzone/@in2itiveart/experiment-in-encaustic-part-3a https://steemit.com/aakom/@in2itiveart/experiement-in-encaustic-part-3b https://steemit.com/artzone/@in2itiveart/encaustic-experiment-4 https://steemit.com/aakom/@in2itiveart/encaustic-experiment-5-a-longer-project https://steemit.com/aakom/@in2itiveart/sigil-intuitive-drawing-for-20-yr-anniv-1 https://steemit.com/aakom/@in2itiveart/20-year-anniversary-sigil-with-intuitive-drawing-encaustic-experiment-6b