Finished and ready to go

I think I finally finished up the 10 paintings in this series yesterday.

I had some problems with the two that I poured wax on - the paper was pulling off of the boards. I'm not sure what happened - either I didn't fuse it enough or I shouldn't have poured the wax onto paper (actually, one of them was fabric) that I had glued onto the boards. It might work better to pour the wax onto wood, so it soaks in... I don't know. But this made me a little sad:

...the fabric just pulled right off.

But I would rather show stable, archival paintings and not have to worry about them falling apart.

So here they are:

Deanna Wood - Sparkling Clean - collage and encaustic - 12" x 12"

Deanna Wood - Pink Houses - collage, oil, and encaustic - 12" x 12"

Deanna Wood - New Washer - collage, solvent transfer, oil, and encaustic - 12" x 12"

Deanna Wood - Home for Your Family - collage, solvent transfer, oil, and encaustic - 12" x 12"

Deanna Wood - Duty/Beauty - collage, oil, and encaustic - 12" x 12"

Deanna Wood - Clean and Pure - collage, solvent transfer, oil, and encaustic - 12" x 12"

Deanna Wood - Breakfast - collage, oil pastel, solvent transfer, and encaustic - 12" x 12"

Deanna Wood - Beautiful Home - collage, solvent transfer, oil, and encaustic - 12" x 12"

Deanna Wood - Beautiful - collage, oil pastel, solvent transfer, oil, and encasutic - 12" x 12"

These are the two that I had to redo:



I'm still formulating my artist's statement about this one. But I think it will have to do with women - domesticity and expectations. Patterns symbolize the plans that we're expected to follow. The images of women cooking or being beautiful symbolize what is expected of us (by society, our families, ourselves...). I had been avoiding using the house shape, since it's so much a part of my work, but I just couldn't resist. It seemed necessary - it wanted to be there...