Garden Sanctuary

Hallo,

  Finished off another one in my Bee series this last weekend. This one is 15 by 22 inches in a black float frame.

  I started with a cyanotype using flowers and weeds from my yard and garden onto watercolor paper. 

  I then glued it to a cradled wood panel and added several layers of encaustic medium. I colored some of it in with pan pastels and then decided to paint them with encaustic instead. I added some ferns using a stencil and then added the honeycomb/beeswax with a stencil also.

  The bees were done with a hot pen with a very fine tip - from a photo printed onto tissue paper to use as an under drawing.

  I added a few touches of pan pastels on top of the honeycomb.

This one will go to a couple shows and be available on my Etsy shop in the early fall.

   Have  great week!!!

     Tera

 

Another purple basket

Hallo,

  I started this basket in the last basket class that I held at HH ARTS Gallery and finally had a few moments to finish it off (just in time for my next class this weekend).

  The basket is about 6.5 inches round and 4 inches tall.

  I used a seashell slice as a 'start' for this basket.

    All for today - have a great week

     Tera