{"id":49719,"date":"2011-10-18T13:11:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=49719"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:21:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:21:20","slug":"south-end-patch-keller-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/18\/south-end-patch-keller-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Patch interviews encaustic artist Amy Keller &#039;87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>South End Patch <\/em>reporter Christopher Treacy interviews encaustic artist Amy Keller &#8217;87 of Kingston, Mass., about her work and about switching from one creative visual medium (photography) to another.<a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/keller-patch.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/keller-patch-286x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"keller-patch\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Encaustic painting involves laying wax and pigments onto paintings, drawings or other epherma. Keller sketches onto rice paper, paints the   drawings with gouache, hand cuts other elements &#8220;and then   place them, layer by layer, into the wax to build up the composition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keller says she misses photography for the &#8220;freedoms inherent in photo shoots. Going on a personal   shoot is very meditative and I still do try and get out now and then.&#8221; On the other hand, encaustic mixed media offers endless possibilities. &#8220;This is  both exciting and daunting,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Sometimes my head swims  with ideas and if I  don\u2019t get them down on paper, I\u2019m like a deer in  the headlights,  frozen by my thoughts.&#8221; Her company is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/bumblebellydesigns\">Bumble Belly Designs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The biggest difference between  shooting and encaustics is the &#8220;sculptural and  textural&#8221; feel of the finished project. It &#8220;has a unique physical depth. I also  get to get my  hands dirty doing it\u2014and that\u2019s one of my favorite parts.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/southend.patch.com\/articles\/sowa-spotlight-on-amy-keller#c\">View story from the <em>South End Patch<\/em>, Aug. 27, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South End Patch reporter Christopher Treacy interviews encaustic artist Amy Keller &#8217;87&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11010,133,11009],"tags":[11051,6135],"class_list":["post-49719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-music-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86073,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719\/revisions\/86073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}