Here is the painting I have been working on. I have enjoyed painting and losing track of time with this painting- a phenomenon that doesn't happen with every piece. Now, I am going to use my tiny brush to add more detail to the plants and to everything. Maybe some glazes, too. 
Here is the painting I have been devoting massive amounts of time to as of late. The house on the left is a dog house, on the right is a cat house. I painted this one going from left to right. The house in the middle isn't fully realized yet, neither a cat or a dog house. I'm not sure what it's theme will be or if it will have one. Just imagine this painting with much brighter colors, this photo is a little dim. It's probably 90% done now. I am at the fun part where I put in tiny details with a tiny brush. Really, it's fun.
Here are some rice paper paintings, all ready to be sealed into an encaustic painting. I love how porous this paper is, letting the wax fully permeate, actually changing color to slightly darker, as if it were still wet. 
Here are the two latest. I finished both of these paintings this past week, both have lingered in the studio, languished in the studio, for months. Each one presented certain compositional and conceptual challenges. The painting above presented more of a conceptual challenge. I was pretty much done with it but I felt like it was boring, or missing something. I was painting on it one day, not really thinking about it too hard, and adding in horses and owls and other animals in the buildings. All of a sudden it seemed to relate exactly to some things I am going through in my life. All of a sudden it took on a very personal autobiographical nature. 
Snippets of my newest work, just a few layers of color and collage down right now. Some of the subject matter is coming together just now. I have been trying to keep these open as long as possible, keeping them abstract until I was sure of just the right thing to paint. The shapes and colors of the abstract collages I was working on suggested this subject matter.
Here are the best roots in Raleigh. They belong to the Japanese Crepe Myrtle in the JC Raulston Arboretum. 
Here are 4 beginnings. 3 are just collages of painted rice paper and wax. The other is rice paper and some wax painting too.
A drawing of a deer on a panel that I plan to start painting on soon.
Brand new works. Probably finished. We'll see.
This is my new series of small animal paintings. All done with wax. Some include fabric as well, and others have some rice paper paintings embedded in the wax. They are in various stages of completion now. I am dying to get into doing the linework in these. Scrape scrape scrape!!
Here are some paintings that are just about done now. All oil on canvas.
This is the start of a new diptych. It is a gouache painting on paper, cut and glued to two panels.
A little farther along, there are some rice paper birds flying and a building beginning to emerge in the center.
Here is my rice paper stash tied together with scrap studio fabric. And a vase made by Keith and Gaines Bailey.
These paintings have almost painted themselves these last few days. These bright greens and blues, very optimistic colors, have taken over my pallet. The titles are Sing a song, Crossing our tails, Bird and seahorse, and I forget what I called the green bird. Look for them on my website by the end of the week. I will have the title then.
There's nothing like starting a painting. It's all possibility. The more you add the more committed you become. For these paintings I started painted some rice paper with gouache and watercolor, then drew on it with pen and cut the shapes out. I used clear encaustic to fuse them to the panel's surface. Now the fun begins!
As some of you may know, I have been on a pretty intense encaustic kick for the past few years. At the outset of my experimentations with encaustic painting, I wondered if the change in medium would affect my oil paintings. I am now beginning a project to find out. Since I started with encaustics, I have done a few oil paintings here and there but now I will delve back into oils more fully with a new series. Above is one of the first of this new group- I just completed this diptych on Saturday and haven't named it yet. I have been doing a lot of birds with radiating eyes, and other starburst archetypes. My figures seem the same as they ever were, but some of the colors seem brighter, some of the linework seems more defined- this could have been the influence of the encaustics. 
And here are my beautiful daylillies. I love seeing the bright colors all over the yard. It's a shame that they only last a day, but kind of cool that the placement of the flowers is re arranged on a daily basis.
This building will probably end up in one of my paintings very soon.