phototransfer, thread, oil crayon, encaustic on archival paper and board c. 2010, Jay Sennett
Creative projects can wait years to find their mediums. That’s been true for me, at least.
I’ve told stories with words, cartoons and film. Now I’m learning to tell stories with photo transfer and encaustic painting.
Last Friday night, Saturday and Sunday (all day), I learned how to transfer laser and inkjet photos and magazine images using packing tape, acetone, gel medium and hand sanitizer. Then I learned how to layer these images in wax.
I can’t recall ever been as inspired to by a medium as I am by encaustics and photo transfer.
Patience comes to mind. I’ve carried with me several stories that I have wanted to tell that have been essentially silenced in other mediums. What I find most exciting about encaustics is that projects are decidedly non-trans focused.
Wait long enough, take enough classes and the medium will appear.
The When the Art is Ready, the Medium Will Appear by Jay Sennett, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
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Wow, this is SOOO cool! Love it!
encaustics / transfers in general open up SO many possibilities…. awesome
over several years and lack of print facilities after i graduated university, i developed a process with 300lb watercolour paper and acrylic gel mediums scratched into and layered with water colour, acrylics and oil stick that is essentially non-toxic (oil stick excepted) and portable…. same thing though – the medium developed out of need/readiness to manifest the message.
- lee
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