My favorite thing about encaustic panting? Everything. ❤️
The melting
The mixing.
The heat
The torching.
The smoothing.
The roughing.
The smell.
The texture.
The sheen.
The grit.
All of it.
Feels good to fire up the griddle again.
#encaustic
#encausticpainting
#capecodartist
"The Purple"
6" x 6" artwork
Mixed media on archivally sealed paper
$45
Free shipping in USA
DM if you'd like to purchase
Part of my abstract blobscape series.
I am extremely pleased with the purpleyness of this piece and I hope you are too. 👏
#purple
#smallart
#abstractartwork
#capecodart
On its way to Tennessee today.
Human Code: Chromatin
16" x 20"
Textured acrylic on upcycled canvas.
Bye, I'll miss you. 💓
"Pretty sure I'm going somewhere after this."
Gel print collage on textured base with acrylic.
This is one of 23 pieces in my current solo show at Snow Library, Orleans, MA.
#buylocal
#womanartist
#artistsofbluesky
#capecodartists
#birdart
A dangerous thought in the nail salon.
Acrylic and oil, 2025.
The latest in my blue crow series.
Two women share a subversive idea: “What if we didn’t have to take care of anything or anyone?", capturing that dangerous, liberating fantasy that unites us all.
Just a little R & R - Rust & Resin.
After oxidizing some cut metal pieces, the next level is applying resin to really pop out the beautiful patterns of the rust.
#rustart
#metalart
#resinartist
#capecodartist
Nerd alert! I have a new toy: a digital microscope.
In this reel:
- a thingy I made with a 3D pen
- a dried leaf
- a rock
- a gel print I made
- an encaustic I made
Especially meta and 🤯: looking at actual artwork pieces I've made under the microscope: pure chaos ❤️
#microscopy
#scienceart
"Imagine if you didn't have to take care of anything or anyone"
4" x 4"
watercolor & ink
#womanartist
#artistsofbluesky
#watercolor
Sold to a lovely home ❤️
"Blue Matrix"
Resined cyanotype collage
12" x 12"
9 mini journeys in one.
#cyanotype
#resin
#artistsofbluesky
"Lucie Scrolling"
16" x 20"
Acrylic and oil on canvas
First in my blue crow series.
Will be showing at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, MA through the end of the month.
#painting
#artistsofbluesky
#birdart
#crowart
#coastalinteriors
Zen Orbs.
Embellished fragments of gel prints.
They will be resined.
I can see myself cranking out more than a few of these...so blissful to just cut out shapes and stack them.
#gelprinting
#gelliplate
#resinart
#womanartist
#atistsofbluesky
13 sold! Here are 4 of them. I love sacrifice art sales - gives me a chance to put a bunch of stuff out there and see what sticks. The Creative Arts Center in Chatham MA has 2 of these sales per year. Definitely gotta get back in the studio.
#artsale
#capecodart
#chathamma
Sold!
"4 Windows, No Door"
Encaustic mixed media.
Castle Hill Center for the Arts. Truro, MA
#encaustic
#artistsofbluesky
#capecoddartist
"Rust Tide"
8" x 8" framed
Oxidized steel & distressed wood
Chemicals, metal, tin snips, pliers, bending, abusing wood, shellacking, turquoise. A real good time.
#artmetal
#rust
#rustart
#distressedwood
#mosaic
#blueskyartshow
#metalsculpture
"Varve"
Diptych
10" x 18"
Joint compound, acrylic, and charcoal on foam blocks.
Got these styrofoam blocks in a shipment months ago.
Glad I held onto them.
Who doesn't love a free, chunky, light substrate?
#artistsofbluesky
#texturedart
#mixedmedia
#abstractart
#painting
WIP called "Listen"
Air dry clay groutless mosaic.
On top of polymer clay pieces about to go in the oven.
#crowart
#mosaic
#airdryclay
#polymerclay
#artprocess
#mosaicart
#artistsofbluesky
Wow! So glittery and sumptuous. Go big or go home! Very ambitious. Thanks for sharing.
An array of force rusted fender washers. After rusting, some are embellished with a spritz of paint and then all are sealed with gloss Rustoleum to prevent further oxidation.
They are destined to become parts of 3D grid pieces currently in progress, or jewelry.
#artmetal
#rust
#patina
Play of the Day:
Painting with forced rust runoff!
I forced rusted some steel nails in a solution, then painted with the rusty liquid.
It dries with a slight metallic sheen and is also nicely gritty.
So many shades.
#artmetal
#rusticmetal
#rust
#painting
#patina
#steelart
Delicious details of a force rusted and patinated steel piece WIP.
Embracing the unpredictability.
#rust
#rusticmetal
#artmetal
#metalwallart
#patina
#steelart
Cut steel sheet patinated & rusted with various chemicals.
Also some encaustic wax and alcohol ink.
I love both sides.
Always fun to goggle up and play with dangerous stuff.
#metalart
#patina
#patination
#scrapmetal
#rusticmetal
#rustysteel
Chick Haiku:
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I'm running for Pope!
Can I get on the ballot?
Nope! I have no dick.
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#feminism
#patriarchy
#pope
#sexism
bare branches
blue sky
looks like stained glass
just draw the sky shapes
warped repetitious polygons each unique as a snowflake
slow spring in my area
quick, take pics of the branches before the leaves come
#abstactnature
#natureart
#stainedglass
#abstractart
#artistsofbluesky
Mother Nature's weirdly sinister splotches remind me that beauty is not perfection, or orderliness, or purity. Beauty just is. Thanks, Mom 😍
Makes me wanna fire up the wax griddle and try to make something half as interesting.
#natureart
#lichen
#natureislit
#encausticart
Food, costumes, wigs, singing, dancing, music, yelling, noise making, bubbles = FUN 🥳 LET'S GOOOOO
Tile mosaic diptych commission.
Made from tiles used in shower.
Giving a geode vibe.
Bathrooms should be beautiful.
#mosaicart
#bathroomart
#mosaic
#geode
#artistsofbluesky
Great turnout in Hyannis MA today for #handsoff
There were so many different messages! Because 47 has f***ed up so so many things!
"Oceania #21"
Encaustic
6" x 6"
The shellac burns on this ended up looking quite seaweedy. 👍
#encaustic
#painting
#artistsofbluesky
Omg I can't wait
Done!
"Human Code: Axon"
14" x 14"
Encaustic and oil
I have sold 3 similar pieces.
Doing these is my therapy so it's nice that people are supporting the Julie Brooks Maintaining Sanity Tour of 2025. 😂 ❤️
#capecodartist
#falmouthartcenter
#encaustic
