Mary C Farrenkopf Blogs

The third piece in Balancing Acts was a complete accident. I decided to use a small encausticbord that came gratis with my metallic paint set to work out the color composition for "Full of Wish". Once I completed the color scheme, however, I was un... 

Today I finally began real work on the next piece in my Encaustic series, Balancing Acts. I was able to finish the Redwing Blackbird Egg and the head of the teaspoon that the eggs are balancing on. Next up is the Western Meadowlark egg, which you c... 

Maybe a little heavy on metaphor, but oh well. Here we have an Albatross's egg balanced on a tipping Grappling Anchor. This will be nice when done in wax.  

Eggs are little packets of life and ever since I was a very small child, I was fascinated by their cool, smooth, beautiful exteriors and loved my job of gathering them from our henhouse. As I got older and spent more time wandering our ten acres in ... 

Life likes to give us lemons, it's up to us to make them into lemonade. For my family and it seems me in particular, the biggest lemon that I keep being handed is frequent moves. We just got to El Paso (not so yay) in June of 2011. We are moving t...