Progression of Four Paintings

I'm doing four related encaustic paintings. They started as four nicely made 12x12" wood panels onto which I put magic encaustic gesso (Holy Grail) on each panel. Then I used Elmer's glue to adhere the background text.

This is the same text I used on four large panels from my work at Women's Art Institute three years ago. Yesterday, I typed it all from the panels into a document (11 single spaced pages!), the printed it out in 11x11 squares on 11x17 paper. (I love 11x17 paper.)  I went out for a little while today to see the Children's Art Walk downtown, the fired up the wax when I got back and started on panel #1 (0-10 yrs).

Here are three shots of the process. Tomorrow - ah - a day off. I'll be able to work on Panels 2-4.