News about the new website: jinxgriswold.com

I've been working on a new website for a while and finally have it up and running.
At the new site, you will be able not only to see my art; but to purchase it directly through the website.

I hope you will take the time to peruse the site.  Though this blogspot will remain on the web, it will no longer be the place where I post new art.  Come on over to jinxgriswold.com to see my art, and join us at an Art Play Day, or see where my art is on display in the community.

Jinx

Click here: jinxgriswold.com

Some Examples from the website:

Horse-themed journal

I have been working on a horse-themed journal for a lady that saw my work in Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, over the holiday.

It was exciting searching out and putting together photos, ephemera, coordinated papers, making pockets and tags, adding embellishments, and finally assembling the journal into a book using the front and back covers of an old book I discovered in an antique store with the picture of colt on the cover.  What a pleasure!

3-D, Recycle, abstract wall hanging

This 3 dimensional, recycled, encaustic wall hanging has been shellacked for extra texture and color and burned with my big, old torch!  I'm just having too much fun!

I knew there'd be a use for those bottle caps someday...

This encaustic piece is an abstract embellished with bottle caps and wire.  Photos don't always show up the fine lines of wire; but it does show up nicely in person.  So if you want to see it, or any of the five others that will be joining it at the Abstract Art show in March - come on down to Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River anytime in March.  

Finishing a not-so-finished encaustic piece of art

 Sometimes I'm not sure if a picture is finished or not.  When that happens, I move it to some very visible spot (usually in the living room) where I will pass it repeatedly during the day and can decide if there's something missing, or if it's done.  

Usually, my first clue that the painting is not finished is the fact that I am wondering that very thing; so have refused to sign a picture until I know it's ready to go out into the world and be seen in public.

This encaustic painting is an example.  You will see the semi-finished version in the post just previous to this one.  Though it was okay, I had a funny feeling it needed more, and indeed it did.  

After several days of it sitting around in various spots in my living room, it finally got my attention and fairly screamed what I had been needing to hear.  

The first subliminal message came while I was sleeping and woke me to make note of the fact that I needed to get the rusty, flat wire that I had found on our property and use it to make the 3 spirals and a zig-zag design that is now imbedded in the art work.

The next day, as I contemplated that step, I thought I needed to add color to set off the wire and do a shellac burn on the whole thing (twice).  

Now that all that is done I'm very happy with the picture and the picture is quiet, which tells me it is happy to be complete, too.  I can add my signature, now.

Prepping for April show: Internal Dialogue: Abstract Art

Untitled Encaustic painting (24 X 36)

I'm getting ready for the April 2018—Internal Dialogue: Abstract Art show at Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River.  By the time the show gets here this piece will be framed and looking a lot spiffier on a wall alongside other paintings, instead of my sofa.  I'm loving encaustic and abstract.

Broken Rules and other recycled art projects

Broken Rules  Approx. 14" X 18"  Encaustic, old yard sticks, found objects

Wired 23" X 5" Encaustic, Scrap wood, nuts, bolts and wire

Windows  4' X 6"  Encaustic, scrap wood

Encaustic sculpture

Encaustic sculpture has taken my fancy:  Below are 6 pieces in basically the order that they were created:  Contact me at Jinxie3946@yahoo.com if you are interested in purchasing something.  Free Shipping.

This is my first.  Looks sort of like a pretty mountain on basalt base.  I call it: Joy Mountain.  $145

This is a bowl, looking down from the top.  Approximately 8" across and 4" high.  $150

Pocketbook.  4" X 6" X 2".  $90

Abstract.  Mother and Child on basalt base.  $175

Got a little whimsical here.  I call it Red-headed step child or country cousin. Chicken feathers for hair with a couple of green parrot feathers.16" high X 4".  $125

Airy large bowl.   10" X 18" at widest point.  $325

So there you have it: my adventure into encaustic sculpture.  

Playing in Encaustic Art

It's past time I should post some of my encaustic art.  So here goes:

Enjoy!

Jinx

My gourd heaven

Seddon challenged a group of artists to decorate gourds with the theme in mind that the gourd should reflect outside whatever our idea of heaven is.  It's an idea from Chinese mythology.

This gourd is about a foot tall and decorated 360 degrees around with Zentangle designs.  It reflects my love of art and if I could create my own heaven it would certainly be a place where I could be immersed in all things art forever.

Seddon is hoping the folks at the Chinese Garden in Portland will allow us to show our gourds there.

My first encaustic painting.

I know I told you that I did some encaustic painting on the panel that holds my book, Of Nature; but I'm not counting that because it it mostly hidden by the book mounted over it.

So this small painting (approx. 6" X 9.5") was really my first encaustic painting.  I want to give Audrey at Columbia Center for the Arts thanks for making me curious about encaustic.  I wasn't able to attend her demonstration; but hearing about it afterwards was all I needed to start doing some research, then attempting it myself.

I call it "Mountains and River."  At this point it is not framed; but it will be soon.
It's available for $75, contact me at jinxie3946@yahoo.com if you are interested.

Of Nature -- a handmade book of quotes on the subject of nature and the outdoors

 This book hangs on the wall or sits on a table.

It is mounted on an art panel that has been painted with encaustic paint in natural, earthy colors.

The book itself is made with rough, handmade paper that I made in my studio, and bound with piece of pine branch and rough jute twine.  It has been permanently attached to the art panel.

The exposed panel around the book has been embellished with small pinecones, mossy twig, small rocks (all from my yard) and a piece of driftwood gathered on a recent trip.

It has been entered in a show in October at Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, along with several other altered books and journals.