Constructing a Woven Surface

Encaustic on panel.......KSL
sketchbook.....KSL

Encaustic on panel.......KSL


Sketchbook Project......KSL

Sketchbook Project......KSL

Sketchbook Project.....KSL
Sketchbook Project.....KSL

Sketchbook Project.....KSL
Black stain on porcelain tiles.......KSL

encaustic prints.......KSL

Encaustic prints.......KSL

Encaustic prints........KSL

Encaustic prints.......KSL

Paper pulp painting

Interconnecting systems, Patches, Grids, Squares, Sections, Tiles, Frames, Structures, Outlines, and Pattern


I have been using the outline/frame way of mark making my whole life....if i sit down and pick up a pen...that is the first thing my hand does...it is automatic...

Rock drawings in creek bed
silkscreened ink on handmade paper....KSL

black stain on porcelain tiles with grass growing in cracks...KSL

black stain on porcelain tiles with moss.....KSL
ink on paper....KSL
encaustic prints on paper......KSL

my digital images in grid format....KSL

sketchbook print over photograph....KSL

sketchbook.....KSL

if I am going to buy planters....square it is....KSL

sketches.......KSL

Sketchbook Project.......KSL

Sketchbook Project.......KSL

Photos from my front yard....KSL

detail of "Translational Perspectives" encaustic on panel......KSL

drawing on my encaustic palette.....KSL

Sketchbook Project.......KSL

Sketchbook Project ......KSL

Sketchbook Project......KSL

Sketchbook Project.....KSL
Sketchbook Project......KSL

Sketchbook Project......KSL

Sketchbook Project......KSL
Rock drawings.....KSL

Taking photos is a constant starting point....

awesome winter day outside my window..KSL
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encaustic prints     KSL
rice field sketches...KSL

encaustic, mixed media  KSL

natural dyes on rice paste resist stenciled washi, 1994....KSL

encaustic and graphite....KSL

Links between my past and present artwork and photography

on-site work I did while in Japan 1994

playful embossed ceramic tile 2007 

silkscreen print on paper with woodblock print on top 1995
detail of encaustic and oil on panel, 2007

litho print on paper, 1990?

playing with new application on my phone......2011

encaustic monoprint on one of my photos, 2012

photograph I took in awesome garden....2012

my heated palette....2012
winter in my backyard....2005

encaustic, mixed media on panel, 2007
sketches on studio wall....

detail of encaustic work and oil...
detail of encaustic work and oil
detail of encaustic work, oil, and fabric

detail of muddy sand on the edges of a river next to my campsite...

cover of sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project

detail of my floorcloth published in Surface Design Journal...

encaustic and mixed media on panel...

detail of encaustic demo example for workshops......

sketchbook pages of my first encaustic book for The Sketchbook Project

additional pages of my encaustic book

encaustic and mixed media on panel

encaustic on panel
photograph taken while in Hawaii 2010

detail of paper pulp painting using saturated pigments, 1996

silkscreen printing on paper, on-site installation, 1996

photography, 2012

encaustic, graphite on panel, 2001


detail of sculpture, encaustic.....