tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040841.post114187687800753535..comments2023-09-26T07:21:40.532-04:00Comments on The Brooklyn days: Et voiláPretty Ladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00342833918614545778noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040841.post-70787582076619775472007-05-08T13:15:00.000-04:002007-05-08T13:15:00.000-04:00could you please write the detailed recipe for wax...could you please write the detailed recipe for wax medium? thank youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040841.post-1142538102557345182006-03-16T14:41:00.000-05:002006-03-16T14:41:00.000-05:00Hey Dandy! I suspected we had the same approach t...Hey Dandy! I suspected we had the same approach to art--this is why we get along. It saddens me that so many people in the art universe fail to understand this at all.<BR/><BR/>I have been using the wax technique almost exclusively since about 2001-2002. It evolved when I was living in Mexico, pushing the limits farther and farther to arrive at my real voice. I'd brought a bunch of beeswax with me, and one day I just started scraping the stuff across the wood panel I was working on then, more and more and more, until the surface was practically sculptural. The effect is almost like an organic or geologic process--it eliminates the tedious obviousness of linear brush strokes.Pretty Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342833918614545778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040841.post-1142534626862968272006-03-16T13:43:00.000-05:002006-03-16T13:43:00.000-05:00Serena, thanks for this super post. The wax techn...Serena, thanks for this super post. The wax technique sounds exciting! Do you use this a lot? I'd love to see it on canvas some day...<BR/><BR/>And I couldn't agree more with you and Wilber about what great painting does. I have a special species of impatience with visual art that requires me to "read" it like it was linear-logic text. Phooey on that! If it needs that kind of explanation to make it meaningful, why not just skip the painting and WRITE the damn thing. <BR/><BR/>Good visual work IS like music in that it should first be sensual, visceral, vibrational---yes, even mystical---with intellect to follow. <BR/><BR/>Beauty is the way in---remembering, of course, that beauty ain't always pretty.Chris C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18412014181198960193noreply@blogger.com