OfLeavesAndTrees_5239, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. I know I’ve been quiet for a while. I haven’t actually been quiet, no, I’ve been underground, hiding. It was time for me to take a slight recharge and take…
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DACPoster-AVAAAnniversaryShow-1, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Tonight is the big opening reception for “Mixed Media” aka the 35th Anniversary Juried Exhibition from the Austin Visual Arts Association. This shindig is also called “AVAA at the DAC”…
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GreenReflections, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. About a month ago, maybe even longer, I was alerted to a faraway art competition that was looking for entries. Being the artist that I am and knowing how I…
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Figures_5314, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. It’s the year of the dragon and, to celebrate, today I headed over to Austin’s very own Chinatown destination to try and photograph some of the free roaming dragons. I…
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, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Ten years….ten long years. That’s a lot of time in blog-land. That’s a lot of little white boxes with blue [POST] buttons, isn’t it? That’s a lot of art and…
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SunriseOverAshes_1946, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Time for a commercial, as they say, since I’ve got some show news to tell you about. For starters, I have work included in the Winter exhibit over at A.…
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For many, the word southwest conjures up familiar motifs like adobe buildings, cactus flowers in the desert, and even the ever-so-iconic abandoned animal skull in an otherwise barren landscape. One of the artists most closely…
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RedSkyNight_5632, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Recently, a friend of mine posted something on her blog about how she was “responding to an artist’s call.” The call for entries or “artist’s call” is quite common in…
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MottledEarthAndSky_5641, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Finally shot some of my encaustic panels today, so that you could have a look and see too what I am talking about when I talk about my encaustics. This…
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CloudsBWSQ_9863, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. The forecast for this weekend calls for it to be cloudy with a chance of art. I’ve got some painting laid out that I want to finish and even some…
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IcePoint_2875, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Every once in a while, I like to take stock in where I am and what I’m doing. Normally, I do this as a run-up to the New Year but…
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CircumstantialUndertones_5625, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. This weekend, I ordered a frame for my prior “mistake” piece, called “Circumstantial Undertones.” Since I have the frame coming in the mail, I thought it might be a good…
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Artist Pigment Sticks, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. I thought it might be a good idea to list some of the resources I use for my encaustic painting. Of those reading this, at least a few…
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Encaustic ghetto, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. You know how I love little houses so? Just go back from a great exhibit of Will Klemm’s work at Wally Workman Gallery in downtown Austin. He’s like the…
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GoodEarth_3140, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. There have been times in my life when I stood up, looked around, and thought to myself (sometimes aloud even) “am I really seeing this? Am I really here?” It’s…
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DaffyDuckBerg_2993, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. As I was processing my iceberg shots, I kept thinking about how this crazy-looking iceberg really resembles (to me anyway) Daffy Duck. I kept thinking, “Man, that thing looks like…
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GlowingPinkLines_5605, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. I hope everybody had a safe and happy new year. For me, the new year has started with a flurry of show activity. For starters, yesterday I found out that…
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Red Ironing Area, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. According to Flickr, this was my best image of 2011, at least it was my most popular, ranking at a hefty number 13 on my “Popular” count, which…
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WaxDetail_5628, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. In the process of updated my gallery website, HouseOfCarol.com, I decided to add some information to the site about encaustic and the art of encaustic painting. Since I’ve been doing…
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DesertHill_5613, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Just got finished with a busy studio day today. Wonderfully sunny day today here in Austin and I spent most of the afternoon in studio working and, when I wasn’t…
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