Darkness Rising Up Into the Night Sky (2014) Original Painting by Gray Jacobik

This mixed-media encaustic abstract (on cradled basswood panel) began with a deep turquoise ground then a sheet of Japanese paper with a high-fiber content (numerous paper threads). I began layering the encaustic (highly-pigmented purified beeswax strengthened with resin), and added small white and green pearls and chips of green glass, then fused the surface painstakingly with a heat lamp, adding more pigment, oil stick and hard wax, fusing yet again. It looks as if the constellations are visible, and while this might be seen as a spring sky above the tree line, I prefer the more abstract concept of darkness rising up out of the ground, a kind of reverse of the actual. Signed and dated on the back, framed in a slim silver canvas floater frame, this painting ships with a digitally-registed Certificate of Authenticity.

Materials used:

encaustic paint, wax, fiber, pearls, glass chips

Details:

• Painting on Panel / Board / MDF
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 53.34 x 53.34 x 3.81cm (framed) / 50.8 x 50.8cm (actual image size)
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky