Susan Najarian

Susan Najarian is a talented artist that creates encaustic paintings. According to her bio, encaustic is from the ancient Greek word that means to heat. Susan uses digitally-manipulated photographs as her base, then transfers the image to a wood frame covered in encaustic wax. The paintings are created using many thin layers of wax that attract & refract light altering the appearance to produce the cloud like feeling of the medium. I love Pink Bike, a piece that highlights a cute retro bicycle with a basket of blue and green flowers. P.S. Love You is another wonderful painting that features a beautiful pink and orange sky with flecks of gold leaf. And White Dahlia is one that I would love to have hanging in my space!

*GIVEAWAY - Closed: Enter to win an original encaustic painting titled Early Bird. Visit Susan's Etsy shop & leave a comment on this post noting your favorite piece. Giveaway ends at Midnight CST, Tuesday, June 23.

16 comments:

MJ Hargis said... 1

My favorite pieces were "Coming Home" and "Moment in Blue". I have a soft spot for power lines.

Unknown said... 2

OOOH! i love, love, LOVE "secret forest" and "spring forest." delicious use of color.

tracey said... 3

Spring Forest, they remind me of birch trees, and I don't have any that I can see daily where I live and I miss them.
I liked "Strange Fruit" as well

Laura Rawson said... 4

These are great... it's hard to pick a favorite, especially since she uses lots of my favorite subjects. I guess I'd have to pick Music in the Air.

nitebyrd said... 5

"Are Those My Sneakers" has to be my favorite. What beautiful creations!

Jessica Y. said... 6

My favorite piece has to be Our Love! I really love the colors and it is beautiful! Thanks! :D

jess^^^4002 [at] gmail [dot] com
(without the ^^^)

Anonymous said... 7

I really like Pink Bike and Forest. They are all gorgeous, though!

Janelle Eller

jjeller612@aol.com

Carolyn said... 8

"they are so sweet together"
so beautiful!
hard to pick a favorite!

FAQ said... 9

I really like her art, such wonderful use of colors and I love encaustics. My favorite piece was "don't bug me". Thanks for sharing about this great artist!

The Altered Muse said... 10

Because I love pink and depth in wax, I would have to say that They Are So Sweet Together is my favorite. I have dabbled in encaustic and love it. Very interesting!

Jessica Strawser said... 11

I LOVE the color palette of Country Blues!

Anonymous said... 12

My eye is drawn to Coming Home. But I also like the Pink Bike.

Crunchy Green Mom - Suzanne said... 13

I already put The Conversation. Original Encaustic Painting 5x5.. on my wishpot list for my daughter Ashlyn. I would LOVE to get her this for Yule. Yes.. I've started my holiday list and will start shopping in July :)

But I won't wrap until Christmas Eve... Not sure what's wrong with my head. heh...

k8sims said... 14

"Girlfriends" is my favorite piece. I might have overlooked it if not for the name. After the name caught my attention, I gained a whole new perspective of the piece. When my girlfriends and I get together, it's like we're in the middle of nowhere like the birds on a wire.

Anonymous said... 15

I love "The Conversation". beautiful work!

Laura Stewart said... 16

gorgeous - love Coming Home