Thursday, March 24, 2011

Small encaustic

6 x 6 encaustic & mixed medium

I love script, letter forms, and, as is obvious here on this blog, circles. I'm also starting to realize that I like grids (looking at my tumblr archive) in some way, but I like the juxtoposition of organic spontenaeity and lines and circles. I vaguely remember reading in the past, that all life, organic and inorganic is based on mathematics. That's as far as I got with that information. Math and I don't come close to mixing. Actually, we're like oil and water. So I don't know what that means with regard to what draws my eye in. I do believe that the subconscious is at play in art. I've often realized, long after finishing a piece, what it really represented to me . . where some subconscious stuff . . somehow . . eeked it's way out onto the canvas, and after I had become distanced from it, I could see it plainly.

I have a few more encaustic paintings that are coming to completion. It often happens, that when I post an image here, I can see more easily where I might need to tweek a little.

I'm building up enough work to finally get them professionally photographed. It will be nice to see images of what my eye sees, rather than what the camera decides it will present. There is no blue in this painting (lower right) and there's glare in the lower right.
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19 comments:

  1. brbulka.gMarch 25, 2011 at 2:28 AM

    Nice work ... colors are amazing ... very pleasing to me ... :-)

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  2. r.bohnenkampMarch 25, 2011 at 2:39 AM

    beautiful work!

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  3. sukipoetMarch 25, 2011 at 4:27 AM

    in the center, i love the way we look down through layers of letters to other letters. like looking down a well. i have received and watched the video you mentined about encaustics and paper which was fascinating and chocked full of ideas yet left me a tad afraid due to all their safety precautions. i guess i will have to wait till i can get out to the unheated workshop which could be months.

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  4. Jann GougeonMarch 25, 2011 at 11:20 AM

    Brbulka.g . . thanks so much!
    Ralph . . thank you! I really appreciate it!
    Suki . . a well . . interesting perspective with your connection to your well.
    :-) . . videos always put a lot of safety precautions in . . probably to protect themselves, and especially with this one. All you need is ventilation and not to get molten medium and paint over 200 degrees. I haven't been burned yet! It also cools VERY quickly . . and it's really LUCIOUS!!

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  5. ZenDotStudioMarch 25, 2011 at 11:05 PM

    I love this piece. I too am drawn to script and love to incorporate it into my work.

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  6. ShaylaMarch 29, 2011 at 9:12 AM

    You explained that well. I love what you said about the subconcious eeking out onto the canvas. I like the way you mix math with freedom- the grid with the spontaneous elements.

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  7. Jann GougeonMarch 30, 2011 at 2:48 PM

    Thanks so much, Shayla. The subconscious . . to me, a very interesting, fertile source of many "things." Math and spontenaeity . . saw a program on fractals & learned what we think of as random (rocks, tree branches, etc.) are organized in some kind of "system". But I don't know that I'll ever understand! :)

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  8. BarryApril 1, 2011 at 5:17 AM

    JG-great piece of work - delicate, layers of work and meaning. B

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  9. Jann GougeonApril 2, 2011 at 7:50 AM

    Thanks so much, Barry, and thanks for stopping by.

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  10. Sharon BarfootApril 2, 2011 at 7:42 PM

    Absolutely stunning work here Jann. Bravo.

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  11. Jann GougeonApril 3, 2011 at 8:55 AM

    Hi Zappha . . I so appreciate your kind words.

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  12. Laura DunnApril 5, 2011 at 6:14 AM

    found you today by a link you made to one of my works~! - it is on your Neutral Notes blog/tumblr... what a pleasant surprise and i love your work and all of your art connections - how do you keep up?????
    Laura Dunn
    www.lauradunn.weebly.com

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  13. Carole ReidApril 5, 2011 at 11:00 AM

    VERY nice piece. It has so many layers to look at over and over again.
    Where did the blue come from? I often have the same problems (shadows, reflections etc) when I take pics of my work.

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  14. Jann GougeonApril 5, 2011 at 12:57 PM

    Thank you, Carole. I don't know where the blue came from! Have been taking a beginning photo class, but am so right brained, not a lot sinks in.
    Numbers & technical go out as fast as they come in!

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  15. Michele MeisterApril 6, 2011 at 12:12 AM

    this is another wonderful one Jann ! looks so old and mysterious ! That is the good thing about being a painter: you can make up your own mathematical rules :)

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  16. AnonymousApril 6, 2011 at 11:16 PM

    What a gorgeous piece!

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  17. layersApril 7, 2011 at 1:01 PM

    Hi Jann, I am glad you stopped by my blog-- You have all the elements in your encaustic I love-- text, letters, numbers and CIRCLES -- plus I also have been trying encaustic- wax...so I love your encaustics.

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  18. Jann GougeonApril 7, 2011 at 1:11 PM

    Hi Michele, Lynn, and Donna . . thanks so much . . to all of you . . your kind words . . and your visit here.

    Donna . . you like circles!!! For me . . don't know what it is . . they just seem to want to be in there! Have no idea why! So I just go with it.

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  19. AnonymousApril 15, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    Hi Jann,
    LOVE your encuastic collages! I especially like this image with the complex and "deep" background... it is really beautiful. I'll email you re: calligraphy, but I have to say, your images are truly lovely as they are!
    Thank you for stopping by my site, all my best!
    Kathy

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