Shari Replogle is a mixed media artist and instructor born and raised in sunny California and now residing in the Mid West. Over the last decade she has written many articles on various mixed media art forms for Somerset Studio , Belle Armoire Jewelry, Belle Armoire, Prims, Somerset Holidays and Celebrations, and Gallery Magazines. She has taught workshops both live and online nationwide , and has several ongoing workshops available for both metal work and encaustic . She currently has an ongoing video series on her Youtube channel called "Wax on Wednesdays" where her goal is to introduce, and share her love and passion for encaustic art techniques with others .
Encaustic allows me to combine my backgrounds , and experience in paint , metal , and assemblage . As I build, each layer often expresses a different emotion for me . I begin with my substrate , and build layer upon layer of wax , infusing color , texture, and often found and cast off objects, until a visual story forms. Building up, and scraping back, are a constant give and take until the story or idea I am feeling is completed. In my assemblages, I am drawn to small cast off articles that are usually man made ,and nature has now begun her job of reclaiming them. Rusted, broken , worn down, and decayed, I view these tiny objects as valuable everyday experiences from the past, that collectively tell a story about human nature .
My paintings are usually wordless interpretations of emotion , experience, or human observation. Whether I am working in encaustic , acrylic , etc . I feel that the taking away of parts of my painting or layers by sanding, scraping , rubbing, scratching, peeling, etc. are just as important as the adding of the new layers . I am often inspired by human history, and antiquity of objects that survive time,even partially ,despite nature's attempts at defeat.
Encaustic allows me to combine my backgrounds , and experience in paint , metal , and assemblage . As I build, each layer often expresses a different emotion for me . I begin with my substrate , and build layer upon layer of wax , infusing color , texture, and often found and cast off objects, until a visual story forms. Building up, and scraping back, are a constant give and take until the story or idea I am feeling is completed. In my assemblages, I am drawn to small cast off articles that are usually man made ,and nature has now begun her job of reclaiming them. Rusted, broken , worn down, and decayed, I view these tiny objects as valuable everyday experiences from the past, that collectively tell a story about human nature .
My paintings are usually wordless interpretations of emotion , experience, or human observation. Whether I am working in encaustic , acrylic , etc . I feel that the taking away of parts of my painting or layers by sanding, scraping , rubbing, scratching, peeling, etc. are just as important as the adding of the new layers . I am often inspired by human history, and antiquity of objects that survive time,even partially ,despite nature's attempts at defeat.