EXAMPLE PHOTOS ABOVE ARE: Photo 1: Cristiano, oil on gallery wrap canvas (no framing needed), Photo 2 Sport, watercolor, Photos 3: Molly, 9x12 watercolor, Photo 4: Duncan, watercolor/encaustic (beeswax based paint) on wood panel with 1.5” profile edges (no framing needed), Photo 5: Duncan - edge view, Photo 4: Molly, 9x12 watercolor/encaustic, Photo 6: Nero, watercolor/encaustic (beeswax based paint) on wood panel with 1.5” profile edges (no framing needed), Photo 7: Clarence, oil, Photo 8: Partly Clark, oil, Photo 9: Partly Clark, edge view, and Photo 10: Marshmallow, oil on wood panel.

Thank you for appreciating my work! Whether you are gifting an heirloom or adding to your own collection, a Carrie Goller original custom painting is sure to bring a smile. You may choose to memorialize your family, friends or pets - anything goes! Free shipping (except oversize) outside Washington State, or pick-up may be arranged at Carrie Goller Gallery in Poulsbo, WA. The process is fun and easy!

• Send your color or black and white photos via email (carriegoller @gmail.com) or message and they will be turned into Carrie Goller custom art. Choose your style from examples, or you can let Carrie help decide the style for you!

• Please keep in mind that a clear, well-lit photo depicting your image is always best to work from.

• We generally request one month turn-around time, but often can accommodate quicker turn-around of your project, just ask!

• Further customization is available, possibilities are endless - just ask! For example, paintings can go as large as you like, up to 9 feet or more! I am able to work with ashes if the client desires a memorial portrait.

• You will receive a photo for approval prior to shipment or pick-up.

Reach out and discuss your project ideas directly with Carrie at 360 779 2388, or email carriegoller @ gmail.com, or you may purchase directly here from the options shown.

There are three choices of painting medium listed here in various sizes:

1) Watercolor paintings on paper (will need framing);

2) Watercolor/encaustic on 1.5” profile edge wood panel. A watercolor painting is created and affixed to a wood panel, with smooth beeswax medium layers sealed on top (no framing is needed with this contemporary style, but you may frame if desired). More information about encaustic is below; and

3) Oil on canvas or wood panel with 1.5” profile edge edge with edges painted to coordinate with face of painting (no framing needed with this contemporary style, but you may frame if desired).

WHAT IS ENCAUSTIC?

Encaustic is the very earliest known form of paint, first used by the Greeks over 2000 years ago. The amazing Fayum Mummy Portraits were painted in encaustic by the Greeks in Egypt. They are still fresh and vibrant, and are exhibited today in the world's greatest galleries.

Encaustic painting involves melting, applying, then heat fusing layers of beeswax (resin and pigment can be added). The wax gives an optical depth unique to the medium.

Encaustic has returned from obscurity as modern tools have made the process more practical. Diego Rivera used encaustic in the 1930's on his murals. Jasper Johns is credited with the current renaissance of encaustic fine art with his work that began in the 1950's.

"Why paint in a process-intensive medium that's over 2000 years old?" is rarely asked. That answer is a given: luminosity, rich surface, the beauty of the wax.

Carrie Goller interprets this ancient medium into very contemporary work, creating paintings with brilliant luminosity, as well as some with a rich, delicate opalescence. Maintaining their freshness and intensity, they will not darken or yellow. Because of the protective nature of wax they are impervious to moisture and need not be varnished or put under glass.