Angela J. Hill

I’ve found the cure for everything that ails one, and it is: a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

I painted this several weeks ago as a gift. Obviously, it’s a miniature, with a different aspect ratio, of 422079.

I will say, this makes me want to do miniature paintings of *all* of my work.

This is permanent pen and acrylic on canvas…under wax. I learned about encaustic last weekend but, naturally, had to experiment with the janky version: dripping candle wax. Here’s what I like about this: it both obscures and preserves the message underneath it. This piece is 10″ x 8″.

I just finished it, and I’m ever-so-pleased.

There are plenty of photos of the work-in-progress…but here are some details of the finished piece:

My last Sunday in London, I went down to Brighton and enjoyed the seashore. And I saw a guy playing a sousaphone…on stilts! I mean…playing it on stilts is probably not that much harder than playing it on not-stilts. But how does one get up onto the stilts while wrapped in a sousaphone? That’s what I’d like to know.