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 compositions are fun and freeing, where shapes and marks appear somewhat intentionally but with the guidance of intuition. 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 paintings are encaustic* monotype prints painted on heated plate to melt pigmented wax or a monotype print painted on a Gelli or plexiglass plate with oil sticks. I incorporate additional mediums such as oil pastels or wax crayons.
*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.
A series of these paintings can be found on this LINK.
An archive of my previous work is found HERE.