” My work with encaustic seems like a fusion of many of my past art explorations; which included ceramics, papermaking, printmaking, photography and mixed media collage. There is a sensuality of material and a sense of partnership with the medium that is integral to my enjoyment of the process and to the success of any piece. It is tactile, malleable and rich and also allows the delight of using a fragrant byproduct of the interaction of bees with flowers. It feels akin to cooking, creating a surface that often exudes an edible quality. Unpredictable and surprising effects happen frequently and there is a constant interplay between transparency, opacity, layering and subtle dimensionality. By combining drawing and paper with wax the potential of this interplay seems infinitely expanded.” – Andrea Benson

Artist Jared Clark uses different parts of his face to draw with markers. HA!

Painting in coffee is a refreshing break from working with oils, acrylics, markers, and ink. It is such a wonderful medium with a wide range of brown hues. Anyway, it’s fun, easy and inexpensive, so try it out! More samples of my work can be seen here.

Danish artist Troels Carlsen‘s (b. 1973) work revolves around our historical and biological heritage. Through a wide range of media, he often explores our relation with the animal world and nature in general and sets up his own insightful analogy on human life . He put his emphasis on paperworks and installation. (via Edition Copenhagen)

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell No.2 + combat boots and thread by Gabriel Dawe.

You are looking at the work of Nashville based Pop Surrealist Jeff Bertrand. Would you like to see more? Click here.

‘ Michael Sailstorfer‘s artistic position is to constantly question and expand the classical notion of sculpture. With his often elaborately produced works he puts the processes of daily life in unusual relationships towards each other. He incorporates light, sound and smell within his installations thereby generating images of poetic power.’ (via Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac)

Jaxon Northon is a self-taught oil painter specializing in realistic portraiture. As a full-time artist, he has exhibited his work between San Francisco, California and his hometown of Reno, Nevada. Jaxon’s portraits present women who seem to be growing out of their surroundings. His representational works confront the viewer with a realistic subject interacting with elements of unreality. (via Modern Eden Gallery)

Cha Jongrye was born in Daejeon, Korea, a historic province now known as the silicon valley of Korea, but whose name translates to “large field,” harkening back to its simple, organic roots. Those roots in the simplicity of nature are the basis for Jongrye’s monumental works which seem to defy the confines of space and the natural world. Cha Jongrye works with wood, but not in the way we’re used to. She challenges the material to do more than replicate the frozen recollection of a person, place or thing. Making wood fluid, she reminds the observer of its moment of creation, the organic process before the wood was firmed and placed in the world. (via Bill Lowe Gallery)

This is great stuff. It’s the work of Kelsey Shultis. Click here for the link.