Missing Pages by Artist Shannon Troxler
The paintings are created using rabbit skin glue, also used in bookbinding, to glue pages of original books or bamboo paper to wooden panels. Troxler paints an oil sketch on top of the pages and then applies a layer of encaustic medium (beeswax and damar varnish) and continues to paint with hot liquid wax and pigment. This combination allows a sense of luminosity, depth and layering. She wanted to suggest the way we experience books, that first initial impact of the story and then a gradual unraveling of layers and threads of meaning which change as the reader changes and evolves with time.
Cost: Free
Age: All ages
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