Deer Mete

@deer.wesleyhicks.art

Here I'm a deer, 34, Los Angeles, elsewhere I'm an academic-artist-musician or something of the like. www.wesleyhicks.art/deertree

Here's a closeup of some of the new colors. Gilsonite is a natural source of asphalt and appears a dark reddish brown and is super translucent. PG23 is green earth and different sources each have a different character to them. They are dry and opaque when used. The bronze and gold have mica in them.

I photograph of 11 crayons I made. They are lined up on a table. They have names carved into the left side of each. They are named after the pigments used to make them. On the top are 3 that say gilsonite, followed by a D, M, and an L indicating that they have dense, medium, and light use of pigment in them (and they appear darker the more pigment used). They all appear nearly black.

Below that are 4 crayons that say PG23. This is a type of pigment made from green colored soil, called green earth. The top 2 also say ancient, and the one below says mix and finally the bottom says cypress. The names just indicate the different sources and that I mixed them together to make a blend between the two colors. They all appear muted earthy greens. 

Lastly there are 4 crayons that are sparkly and iridescent. The top 2 say gilsonite bronze and the bottom two say gilsonite gold. These are a mix of gilsonite and different mica formulations.

I have now made over 230 colors of crayons! Even though I have so many colors it still feels like I have major gaps to fill in. I still have barely any greys, need more neutral reds, and more between yellow and greens. I'm happy with the colors between green and blue and blue and purple though.

A photograph of a tray with home made crayons in it. They are sorted by color and in 6 rows.

more teeth emerging from the darkness. This paper cant be scanned correctly, but at least you can see how the encuastic looks with a scanned image, its iridescent. Encaustic on black paper.

teeth emerging from the darkness, parallel to them they have a ghostly shadow.