A True Voice
Mixed-media encaustic, 12x12 on 1 1/2 inch wood panel. Available for purchase for $150.

This picture doesn't show the swirling sky and luminescent tree branches very well, but the duo chrome paint shimmers in the light--different colors from different angles. A True Voice was inspired by the lovely forest at my brother's property, where it began as an oil pastel sketch.
“All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain forest, or comparing tracts of West Coast redwoods to the saguaro forests of the American Southwest... they each have their own gossip, their own sound, their own rustling whispers and smells. A voice speaks up when you enter their acres that can't be mistaken for one you'd hear anyplace else, a voice true to those particular tress, individual rather than of their species.”
― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

I am finished with Grace. Encaustic mixed media with hummingbird painting on 12x12 wood panel. I can't seem to be able to take a picture that captures the reflective bronze metallic background, the texture of the wax (shined), and the oil pastel branches. The colors here are darker than the original. "I do not understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us." Anne Lamott. Grace was created as a birthday gift for my friend Christopher and is signed with my inkan from Japan.

Perfict Gifts for Mother's Day, Come Visit Starbucks in Columbia City

Come visit my first art display at Starbucks in Columbia City: Birds, Blooms, and Blessings. For this beautiful tiny space, I am showing a mix of hand-pulled blocks prints and newer mixed-media encaustic pieces, perfect for Mother's Day gifts. 

Elizabeth Anne Rightor works available for purchase:

Believe (Red frame) Prints available.
Temporal Beauty (Green frame) $250.
Peace (Black and red frame)$200.
Heron Flies Toward the Sun (Black frame) $250.
Medicine Birds (18x34 wooden frame) $350.
12x12 Giclee prints of encaustic mixed-media pieces are available for $40 each.

For more information on individual pieces, commissioned work, or to see other art, please visit Animal Inspiration on FB. 4824 Rainier Ave South Seattle, WA 98118. Please share..

Temporal Beauty--Available for Purchase

Temporal Beauty (mixed media encaustic on wood panel) by Elizabeth Anne Rightor. 

 

Temporal: 1) of or pertaining to time. 2) pertaining to or concerned with the present life or this world; worldly: temporal joys. 3) enduring for a time only; temporary; transitory. Beauty: 1) the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). 2) a beautiful person, especially a woman. 3) a beautiful thing, as a work of art...something that is beautiful in nature ...an individually pleasing or beautiful quality; grace, charm.

The original is available for purchase for $200. I will also be making prints of this one. I will be sharing the full story of Temporal Beauty soon. Enjoy cherry blossoms while they are in bloom :)

Love Song into Harmony, Relationship between the Daffodil and Tulip, Freedom

I had so much fun at an enaustic workshop last Tuesday. I let myself just play. This one is called Love Song into Harmony.

 

Relationship between the Daffodil and Tulip (close up) mixed media encaustic on 8x10 canvas. This piece has David Richo's five elements of healthy relationships inscribed in duochrome hibiscus paint: Affection, Acknowledgement, Appreciation, Acceptance, and Allowance. It also has five silver crosses (which symbolize relationships) and white tulip petals embedded in the wax. This piece is available for purchase and would be a great gift for a friend or other significant relationship. If interested, please send me a message. Happy Spring.

 Freedom (work in progress). I was thinking about getting some new pottery tools for carving into wax and this morning I realized I have a ton of tools for block printing.This is a work in progress and very hard to photograph. The bottom looks like abalone shell.

I think I am done with this one. Beginnings 12x12 encaustic and oil pastels (with some acrylic). Available for purchase. The following words are inscribed in the wax: Hope. Love. Miracles Happen. Believe. Flow. Love is Everywhere. Dreams. Yes. Flow. Gratitude. Wonder. Beauty. Trust. Healing.

Making progress on Reclamation. 12x12 encaustic on wood panel. The colors appear darker than they actually are, but this shows the contrast of textures with wax and picks up some of the iridescent paint.

Just got my sample prints in the mail. I have adorable 4x4s of a few paintings and a few 16x20 prints of Joy. These are going to look so cute in little frames.

Sunshine, Love Waits, Peace

Sunshine (Mixed Media on Wood Panel) 12x12. "Laughter is Like Sunshine." Sold commissioned work.

Love Waits (Mixed Media on 12x12 Wood Panel). "It is at the edge of a petal that love waits" William Carlos Williams. Original available for purchase by contacting elizabethrightor@gmail.com.

Peace (Mixed Media on 12x12 Wood Panel--acrylic, oil pastels, collage, paper, and encaustic on wood with papyrus border. "Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature" ~Gerard de Nerval. Not visible in this picture, the lotus petals have duochrome paint and reflect the light from different angles. Available for purchase. Please e-mail me at elizabethrightor@gmail.com. Blessings, Elizabeth

New Work

The Spiral Goes In. Mixed media on Canvas. The quote says, "There is always one unexpected little moment a door opens to let the future in." Graham Greene

Believe. Mixed media on wood. In loving memory of my mom. The quote is from Bon Jovi. "Believe in love. Believe in magic...Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?" Instead of signing my name, I have stamped this piece with my inkan from Japan (customized stamp used for important legal documents).

Make Me An Instrument of Peace. Mixed media on canvas. The quote is from Spring by Mary Oliver and says, "...my life is with its poems and its music and its cities It is also the dazzling darkness coming down the mountain breathing and tasting."

Adding more pieces

How the Light Gets In. Mixed Media on wood panel.

Joy--acrylic on canvas.

Dios Es--acrylic on canvas

Black Cat and Roses--Original hand-pulled block print

Framed Sea Turtle Hand-Pulled Print

Black Oystercatcher--acrylic on canvas

Passionate Heart--acrylic on canvas

Medicine Birds--Framed 18x24 original hand-pulled block print

Joy

Joy--Acrylic on canvas of two hummingbirds by Elizabeth Anne Rightor.