Waterlogged

Dear god.

It's been like 2 weeks.

 Ok go!

I was hoping to update with some kinda finished projects BUT I don't have any yet so this one's gonna be quick and dirty.  After making encaustic paint for the past 6 months, I finally got the stones to paint with some.  In progress:

Figured I might as well try and make that drawing look like a finished piece.

For the first time in way too long, I spent the entire weekend in the studio!  I should have taken more pictures so this could be a photo laden post without tired brain babbles.  Oh well.  

What I did was turn this:

Into this:

Since I wanted a longer fiber in the paper I didn't adequately cut down my flax before loading the beater.  After a 9 hour beating time on Saturday, I gave the machine a rest and finished it up on Sunday morning.  Even after waiting until the beater was down to add the abaca, the flax still needed a few more hours which resulted in slightly shorter flax fibers and over beaten abaca.  All sheets pulled today are in the dry stack so I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see how they turned out.  The beginning of pulling sheets was rough.  It had been awhile.  Only about half of the pulp was used so there are plenty of second chances in a vat just waiting.

For reals next time, before and after pictures of the Roos Art ceramic piece.  The second firing took place yesterday.  

Still trying to take myself seriously.

Seriously.