Monday, February 15, 2010

OH, HONEY, WHERE ART THOU?

 

 

 

 


yesterday's best gift
delivered with chocolates
from my photographer friend

mary whalen dropped by yesterday with handmade chocolates
for my husband and i...and brought this delicate work to me.
she'd been photographing her neighbor's beehives, and knew
i was beginning to experiment with encaustics...
now.
how
can i possibly melt this?
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p.s. it's 16 inches long

14 comments:

  1. Neat! I love honeycomb. A friend of ours used to give us fresh, full honeycomb from his hives and we'd eat it like candy.
    The color and patter are spectacular. I can see why you don't want to melt it.

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  2. hmmm, nature does the best stuff-- perhaps you could save part of it-- put is somewhere special

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  3. do not do it...but if you must have fun and create beauty...what a NICE friend!!

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  4. looking forward to your work with this ...

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  5. elk....love that authoritative imperative...!!! hmmmm. i'll just melt the small end of it. hmmmm.

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  6. Oh YUM! What could be better than something you can eat, photograph, melt, paint with and smell. :)Bea

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  7. Well - you DO have the photos for the MEmory. So - Eat some. Melt some. but, photos - please!

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  8. don't melt it! that is an amazing piece of bee art :)

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  9. oh ... i just added that this honeycomb is sixteen inches long and six inches high.

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  10. Hi Neva,

    I have been wanting to get into encaustic but if someone gave me a honey comb, I would not melt it, rather use it to create art by keeping it intact.

    Just a thought.

    Egmont

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  11. Beautiful photos of the honey comb...so warm and inviting.

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  12. wow. i feel like the keeper of the earth, and should destroy no more. sooooooo, i don't think i can melt it. we'll ALL rest better knowing it's safe. when my friend said she had this for me, she didn't say the 'comb', just bee's wax. i envisioned a big clumpy block, for some reason. so when i saw this unwrapped, it took my breath away.
    and when the morning light shines through, aw!!!!

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