While taking a course in encaustic painting at Syracuse University in 2012, I created these paintings.  This week, I revisited them and decided to remove them from their larger chalkboard mounts to hardboard cradle mounts.

I also wanted these 9″ x 12″ paintings to reflect the devices I’d used in the 8″ x 8″ crown series I completed last month, adding embroidery floss, ribbon, more playing cards and checkers, as well as cold wax accents and enamel paint.

I love that these paintings have a luster that comes with age.  Time allows the wax to strengthen and the result is a marvelous sheen that only needs a bit of gentle buffing.

There are eleven paintings here because the one I’d titled Modern Pharoah is MIA.  In my attempt to locate it, I found other things and made a note to self to take a day and reorganize my art storage and material storage.

Will Modern Pharoah materialize so that I can resurrect it?  (No coincidences)