Rioja Encaustic on wood panel, 36”X80” 2012.
Rioja
This is painted on a full size hollow-core door with a fine-grained Finnish birch-wood skin. A great solution
to working large. A door manufacturer in Seattle constructs doors to my specifications. Here I am experimenting
with selective color for the purpose of story-telling. Red is only on the woman’s dress and in a
tiny reflection in the mirror on the wall. Everything else is painted in sepia. This choice draws the eye to
her. And then you look around and see the wine and glasses on the table, and a two other dancers sitting
alone – perhaps wishing they could be sharing the wine and dancing like the woman in the red dress. It’s
a painting about longing.
Willow Bader
Torque De Oracian, Before
Sunset.
This is one of my best efforts to
paint large – three full-size door
panels. A daunting task when
working with hot wax. I was a
little intimidated to work this
large, and worried that it was too
ambitious. But – here’s the good
news – it sold right away and
is hanging on a wall in Atlanta!
Now I’m working on a two-panel
painting 3 feet by 10 feet.
What’s the size limit to my
paintings? I don’t know. Yet.
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Portfolio
Torque De Oracian, Before Sunset, Encaustic triptych on wood panel,
80”X94” 2011.
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