Bingo basket

Hallo,

   I finished off another 'couch project' last night. I cannot just sit on the couch and watch TV so I always have something to do with my hands. I make locker hook rugs and in the last year have started making baskets.

   For the base of this basket, I used an old bingo card that I found at a thrift shop (a packet of 4 actually). I drilled holes along all the edges to attach the first coil to. I used a paper coil and hemp twine to wrap the coil. I also Had an old plastic beaded necklace in my stash, and I used some of the beads in the top part for a bit of decoration.

  I made the walls of the basket a bit shorter at the front just to show off the card a bit more. Tapering the new coils at the front edges to build up the next layers was a bit of a challenge!!

  All for today - Take Care!!

     Tera

 

Creepy tree - Snowy Range WY

Hallo,

  A ton of pics in this post just to show you the progression of this painting. The background  started with very light blues and grays and then I added white/gray diluted with alot of medium to make it more translucent. 

  For the background trees I painted them in dark greens and browns and then added a couple coats of plain medium alternating with the diluted foggy gray.

   I printed the tree onto tissue paper(from one of my photos- isolated the tree). The second picture shows the print and the third is me starting to iron the tissue paper so it melts into the wax.

   Pic #4 shows how the print looks after embedding it into the wax. I then used a hot pen with a fine tip to paint over the tree with wax, using the print as an under drawing.(pic 5).

  Pic 6 is after I added in the foreground grasses - to bright so pic 7 is after I fogged them up a bit.

  Pics 8 and 9 are the finished painting. I am pretty pleased with how this one has turned out. I done often do monochromatic pics and they are a challenge for me.

    All for today - Take Care

         Tera