Anemone garden

Hallo,

  I finished off this driftwood piece for a 3D themed show at my local art cooperative this last weekend. 

  I found the driftwood piece on a morning walk on the bayside a while back. I attached it to the flat wood round with some screws on the underside.

  The first 4 pics are all my doo dads before I painted them. They are all made of paperclay - except a little holey wood piece to the left in the first picture. The paperclay is air dry and holds the encaustic paint very well.

                                                                                                             The next 3 pics are of the front after I painted everything. The anemones in blues and purples, the octopus in greens and the tube coral in orange/pinkish reds with yellow tentacles made from some crochet thread.

     The last 3 pics are of the back side.

     This was such a fun piece to do - I have so many ideas for my collection of driftwood.\

   All for now - Take Care

       Tera

 

Wittle Bwown Wabbit

Hallo,

    We have a 3D show coming up at our local art cooperative and this is going to be one of my entries.

    I started with a photo of mine of the rabbit - isolated him, turned him into a negative and printed him onto a transparency. I then used the transparency to make the cyanotype print.

   I layed down the transparency of my rabbit onto cyanotype paper and then layered some weeds over the top of the transparency sheet and printed them in the sun for about 10 minutes.

   Once the cyanotype was rinsed and dried, I used colored pencils to color my rabbit. I then glued the paper to a cradled wood panel.

   Next, I got out my paper clay and made up some clay weeds to look like the real weeds I used and added them to the top. I then added several layers of encaustic medium (beeswax with natural tree resin).

                                                                                     I used pan pastels to color the weeds on the base  and then used encaustic paint (encaustic medium with pigments added) to paint the clay weeds.

    The painting is 8 by 10 inches and will be framed in a black float frame.

      All for today -- Take Care

                Tera