Deer Mete

Deer Mete

@deer.wesleyhicks.art

Here I'm a deer, 36, Los Angeles, elsewhere I'm an academic-artist-musician or something of the like. www.wesleyhicks.art/deertree

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This is made with homemade crayons drawn onto paper that is resting on a hotplate. The hotplate makes the crayons melt onto the paper leaving vivid and loose linework.

Here's a closeup of some of the new colors. Gilsonite is a natural source of asphalt and appears a dark reddish brown and is super translucent. PG23 is green earth and different sources each have a different character to them. They are dry and opaque when used. The bronze and gold have mica in them.

I have now made over 230 colors of crayons! Even though I have so many colors it still feels like I have major gaps to fill in. I still have barely any greys, need more neutral reds, and more between yellow and greens. I'm happy with the colors between green and blue and blue and purple though.

Encaustic on black paper. I tried framing this one, the iridescence shows through the glass well, it also has mode depth behind glass when on the black paper.

more teeth emerging from the darkness. This paper cant be scanned correctly, but at least you can see how the encuastic looks with a scanned image, its iridescent. Encaustic on black paper.

Two images from Las Vegas Furcon 2025, the last hurrah at a room party before the end of the con. This was taken just before 2 am on Monday morning. I really like the call and response that took place in this moment, it was marked with a feeling in me of not wanting the con to end.

I made these deer hoofprint stamps last year. I just used them again to make some last min glaze tests. I'm going to use them to sign some of my work as well. Its funny, they weren't that interesting to me last year but since finding them again they seem all too perfect.

Is there such a thing as a furry musical instrument? These are experiments in making a 'growler' form that is a long tube. For lack of a better word I am calling these growlers for now, I'll come up with a better name soon.

I have cleared my twitter of all posts, it is only a link to this bluesky now. It feels good to have removed everything. I am not sure how long I am going to want a holding page linking here to be left up.