Family History

Hallo,

   Another encaustic collage painting for you today.  I like this one but it was a bit of a struggle!! I am not all that good at collage - always seems to get too cluttered and then when I try to paint over things to reduce the clutter and add focus it just seem to go blah on me, but this one went a bit better.

   The first 3 photos are the finished painting. The last 2 photos are in progress. That last photo was a big sticking point for me as that dark bottom right hand corner was too dark and distracting and the painting didn't feel cohesive...

  I was reluctant to paint over things and didn't want to use white - too stark - or ivory - would blend in with the vines too much - or the turquoise blue - too much blue. The gold oil stick I have is almost too bright and would have been distracting too and it was more opaque and I didn't want to wipe out what was below completely.....so I tried the gold gilders paste figuring I could always go over it, but it was just the thing to tone down the dark spot under the vine and to tone down the tiny spot of flower paper next to it that didn't quite fit either.

     I finished off the edges with gold acrylic paint which looks really cool in real life!!

   All for today - Take Care

       Tera

 

Floral Ivory 2.0

Hallo,

   Well  as I sat on the couch last evening, this painting kept coming up in my mind, nagging me. She was talking to me and telling me that she wasnt done yet... so todays studio time was spent adding a few touches, and I think she is happy now.

  I started by carving a few lines around the set of leaves in ivory (the top layer of leaves) and used some walnut ink to rub into the lines I made - which was pretty good all by it self ....just not quite.

  I next did some carving on the leaves themselves for the 'veins' of the leaves and then rubbed in some green oil stick and took off the excess. The green matches up with some of the green tones in the rolled flowers and just seemed to add alot more depth.

    All for today.

     Take Care

        Tera

 

Mirror, mirror

Hallo,

  Another encaustic mixed media collage for you today and I used the same main image and mostly the same papers as yesterdays.

   This painting is 10H by 8W and I finished the sides also with gold paint.

   The first pic today is just of the collage and the second pic is the final version with encaustic and the faux ivory encaustic, gold leaf and the same ribbon as I used yesterday.

  All for now - Take Care

      Tera

 

1923

Hallo,

   Back with more fun from my 'Painting with Fire ' classes. Todays painting combines 2 classes - a class on collage and a class on faux looks - in this case faux ivory.

   The main image is from a needlecraft magazine from 1923 from my long hoarded stash (although I did take photos first and saved them to my computer) and then various pretty papers - including some graphite rubbings onto rice paper and coated with wax from a You tube video by Shari Repole.

  Added several layers of wax and then did the faux ivory technique with encaustic, walnut ink and a bit of gold leaf. Used an Art deco type stencil that I thought fit well with the 1920's picture and then another stencil to frame the '1923'

  This painting is 20H by 16 W and I have finished the sides with metallic gold paint(nonencaustic).

   The second pic is the collage portion before I started adding encaustic.

                                                                             All for today - Take Care

                                                                                       Tera

 

Silver leaf collage

Hallo,
  Another collage piece for you today - this one measures 12 by 12 inches and I pulled out the silver metal leave for this one.
  I left the sides the natural wood.
All for now - Take Care
    Tera

Gold leaf collage

Hallo,
  I have a collage piece to show you this am. When I am working with my cold wax and oils and have left over paint at the end of the day I have been 'painting' it onto a piece of arches oil paper and since I had a couple filled up I decided to use them. I tore them into pieces and glued them onto a cradled board.
  The cold wax and oils would keep till the next day if I was able to paint every day but since I only get the chance to paint a couple times a week(if lucky) I decided not to totally waste the paint.
  Once dry - I added some skeleton leaves on top of the collage and then embossed some metal foil to a couple of the leaves.
  The sides are finished with brown paint - cold wax and oils.
   This piece is 8 by 10 inches.
  All for today - Take Care
        Tera

Lighthouse stamped collages - step 2

Hallo,
Did some more playing today - adding some layers to my backround pieces.
This first one is one of the canvus with the gouache - stamped the flourishes with SU chocolate chip ink,
then stamped the Lighthouse with memento ink onto a white paper nakin and used gel medium to glue it to the canvus.

This second one is acrylic on watercolor paper and the colors turned out a bit darker/brighter. Added the flourishes and the lighthouse the same as the first one. Now will let them dry overnight like I should and will color the lighthouse in tomorrow - these I think I will do with watercolors.

I did another one of these today but will show you that one tomorrow.

All for today - Take Care

Tera