Bronwyn Palmer's Page

Hi Bronwyn!How is life?haven't talked to you in a long while!Hope kids and you are doing well in your new home and your art has been revived with the change of lifestyle!Before we loose contact,here is my email if you want to contact me:

dmamiju@club-internet.fr

or my FB page under my full name!lots of old LMM artists meet there,it's very lively and interesting if you want to join us one day!take care xxx Elke

Thanx dear for your nice comment..love your page

That's exactly what I did, I had a friend who took a class show me what she had learned. Ask around at the Art supply stores and nearby collage. Also check your library to see if they have any video's on encaustic. I found one here at my library. Another idea is to go on the R&F website and look for how to video's. Best of luck!

Thank you Bronwyn.

I hear Patricia Baldwin was teaching in Australia for awhile, were you able to take one of her workshops?

Paula

Hi dear!Just back from my holidays i wanted to let you konw that all is well at this end!Thanks again for all your nice comments and hopefully you will start painting again soon!!!!Have a great day over in OZ!

Thanks a lot for your nice comment

Hi dear!Thanks for all the support you give me and i want to reply in person first!i do apply paint first without any plans or idea,just blotches of paint which i spread around with my pelletknife till i have filled up the space.Normally i do work on two sheets as i hate to waste any paint and while one dries,i work on the other one.Sometimes i do print the surplus paint on the second sheet,sometimes i add extra layers on top off the other with some stencils,stamps,dots,strockes but mainly with the knife and fingers,not at all with a brush.I do look for an idea during this process and normally i do see a shape .A layer of gesso all over is the next step where i try to find a form by scratching back with a pelletknife,wiping clear with babywipes before i outline the shape with a marker or pencils,reapply acrylic paint to unify if necessary,and once the gesso is dry,i work on the background with paint and my indexfinger and do cut into this layer with a sharp item or knife for the symbols.At the very end i do add the last layer of oil pastels on certain areas on top to give it a profound colour and some more structure,sprayvarnish to seal it!Voilà,hope it helps,the main idea is to not have a plan to be free and spontanious,otherwise i do block myself and in that case a good layer of gesso is the best remedy and often i do discover something new when i'm angry and start to scratch back right away as i need to finish a painting every night!Funny enough 99% it works out fine and i'm always keen on getting up in the morning to see the result in daylight which is very different from the night before!Maybe accepting your work as it is and not wanting to achieve perfection without pressure is the secret but i don't know really...I never had so much fun creating ...

Thank you for your comment, Bronwyn :-)

Ildiko

Thank you so much for commenting on "Melt" ... It was a spur of the moment thing when I heard the weather for U.S., Massachusetts, and they said 98 degrees, I just melted!