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Medium: Wax
Sisters #4 (Contemporary Vertical Indigo Panel of Hands and Botanicals, Waxed)
Located in Hudson, NY
"Sisters #4", 2019 by Valerie Hammond
72 x 35 inches unframed
Pigment, Color Pencil, Wax, Glass Beads, and thread on Japanese Rice Paper Coated with Beeswax
Vertical, indigo panels ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wax Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Wax, Rice Paper, Color Pencil, Pigment
Sisters #2 (Contemporary Vertical Indigo Panel of Hands and Botanicals, Waxed)
Located in Hudson, NY
"Sisters #2", 2019 by Valerie Hammond
73 x 34.5 inches unframed
Pigment, Color Pencil, Wax, Glass Beads, and thread on Japanese Rice Paper Coated with Beeswax
Vertical, indigo panels that are unframed, can be installed with magnets, but framing is recommended.
In Valerie Hammond’s series of wax drawings, protection is two-fold: the artist (previously) encases dried flowers and ferns in a thin layer of wax, preserving their fragile tissues long after they’ve been plucked from the ground. In outlining a pair of hands, she also secures a memory, or rather, “the essence of a gesture and the fleeting moment in which it was made.”
Centered on limbs lying flat on Japanese paper, the ongoing series dates back to the 1990s, when Hammond made the first tracing “partly in response to the death of a dear friend, whose beautiful hands I often found myself remembering.” She continued by working with family and friends, mainly women and children, to delineate their wrists, palms, and fingers. Today, the series features dozens of works that are comprised of either hands tethered to the dried botanics, which sprout outward in wispy tendrils, or others over layed with thread and glass beads.
Although the delicate pieces began as a simple trace, Hammond shares that she soon began to overlay the original drawing with pressed florals, creating encaustic assemblages that “echoed the body’s bones, veins, and circulatory systems.” She continued to experiment with the series by introducing various techniques, including printmaking, Xerox transfers, and finally Photoshop inversions, that distorted the original rendering...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wax Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Thread, Wax, Rice Paper, Color Pencil, Pigment
Untitled I and II. Vintage book pages where the artist drew and attached poems.
By Daniela Padilla Mainero
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled I and II by Daniela Padilla Mainero
Individual Frame Size: 11.88 in. H x 15.13 in. W x 1.1 in. D
Overall size: 23.76 in. H x 15.15 in. W x 1.1 in. D
Vintage book pages where...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wax Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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Domini, Watercolor and Encaustic Painting by Armando Balboni
By Armando L. Balboni
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Armando L. Balboni
Title: Domini
Year: 1970
Medium: Watercolor with Wax, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 40 x 27.5 inches
Category
1960s Modern Wax Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Wax
Madera Canyon Cycle - Grasses 1
Located in New Orleans, LA
Davidoff creates drawings, paintings, prints and installations that consider intricate patterns in nature and the overlaying systems used to observe, map and define organic landscape...
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Study of Madonna & Child - 20th Century, Wash & pencil on paper by Henry Moore
By Henry Moore
Located in London, GB
Signed lower right
Provenance: The Artist
By whom gifted to Duncan Guthrie, 1952
Private Collection, UK
Reference: HMF 2186b
This drawing is one of the preparatory studies...
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1940s Modern Wax Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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