"Life in the city"

The small painting entitled "Life in the city" is a story of happy urban living, depicting in warm colors a town scene. The atmosphere is depicted through a combination of techniques, with perspective suggested through the interplay of color, line, and transparency. It is created in a mix technique that combines linocut, collage, acrylic, incision and pencil on canvas, protected with a thick coat of transparent varnish.
Size: 20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches).
It is ready to hang - needs no frame, as the sides are painted as well, though you could frame it if you wished it. The art object comes with a saw-tooth hanger (allowing for perfect balance and balance corrections if needed) and canvas stretchers already in place, on the back (if, due to display or storage conditions the canvas should need stretching in the future, the pegs just need to be pushed in a bit)

The masterpiece is available, besides others (contact-relics, works touched by the goddess on the online temple aka Etsy shop of Goddess Gruia. 

"Life in the city" original artwork by Ana-Maria Gruia

The hanging system

Encaustic works on Etsy

Here is an Etsy treasury that focuses on works I like on Etsy made in/with encaustic (painting with wax and pigment) - from the Greek word for “to heat or burn in” (enkaustikos). They are not only paintings, always on hard support, but also various assemblages, jewelry items, and mixed media works. The least creative are, in my opinion, the encaustic photo transfers.

See a bit more on by blog on the technique in general and its history HERE and on my first attempt at it and the difficulties encountered HERE.