Mylen Tumaliuan-Huggins
current work
SURFACE and PRESENCE, 2024 to present
Abstraction has entered my playground in this series of new works. Creating these recent paintings are fun and freeing as I guide my tools and mediums across the surface. After I lay my paper down to make a print, surprising shapes and spaces emerge. Process remains to be the constant focus of my creative practice. I'm exploring the possibilities of what encaustic wax can do by itself or mixing it with other kinds of mediums, while on the other hand, what painting with mixed mediums can do to my compositions as I create monotypes and paintings on paper, canvas, or wood panels.
PRESENCE - monotype painting series
These artworks are encaustic or oil monotype prints on paper. Pigmented wax is applied and melted on a heated plate, or oils are used on a Gelli plexiglass plate with oil sticks and medium before laying paper over to create a print. Occasionally, I include additional mediums like oil pastels or wax crayons to enhance the composition.
*Encaustic is a Greek word meaning “to heat or burn in” (enkaustikos). Heat is used throughout the process, from melting the beeswax and varnish to fusing the layers of wax. Encaustic consists of natural bees wax and dammar resin (crystallized tree sap). The medium can be used alone for its transparency or adhesive qualities or used pigmented. Pigments may be added to the medium, or purchased colored with traditional artist pigments. The medium is melted and applied with a brush or any tool the artist wishes to create from."
From Encaustic Art Institute
A series of these paintings can be found on this LINK.
SURFACE - mixed media painting series
works on paper, canvas or wood panel; with a mix of media such as acrylic, inks, gouache, oil sticks/paint, oil pastels, cold wax and graphite.
An archive of my earlier artworks are found HERE.