carmel art festival

Hair of the Dog

there are no longer bare-naked doggies roaming the neighborhoods of Carmel. The artsy types of Carmel have gotten their paws on them & gussied them all up "fur" ya. The Carmel Art Festival is auctioning off the whole litter, and our artists-in-residence, Thompson Lange & Keri Marion, each have "decorated" doggies. You can also check out some of the other who-whos of doggy decoration at the Carmel Art Festival's website.




the dog, mostly undone to give you an idea of what it looked like before I started working on it	share the love

here are some details of the dog. I've used a sacred, secret solution to make transfers onto most surfaces. for this dog, I've transferred text.	After I was finished transferring the text, I gave it a soft wax coating.

After the soft wax coating, I went over it with hard Encaustic waxes, adding slight variances of color in the "pressure points" of the dog (belly, inside hind legs, etc).	After the hard waxes were applied and burnished, I added a red runner to give more color without having to use more wax (I didn't want it to be overly colorful, just hint, and I was finding the waxes to be a little heavy in both color and texture)

More details of the dog in its finished state.	(The red on the nape pictured here is a reflection of the wall it is sitting in front of).