Bayou paintings

Hallo,

   Finally have some paintings to show you - I haven't had too much time to paint in the last few months and have been working on these three for awhile now.

   We have a Bayou themed show at our local art cooperative - ASDO (Arts and Design Society) here in Fort Walton Beach so I wanted to have a couple to enter. I almost always work on 2 or 3 paintings in the same theme when I am painting anyhow. After a few layers of encaustic with heat fusing each layer - you sometimes have to let the painting sit and cool a bit. I go back and forth between them  so they can cool in-between.

    The first painting is 8 by 10 inches and more fallish colors. The second one is 16 by 20 inches and the last 8 by 10 again. The last 2 I framed in black float frames and have turned them in for the show.

   The paintings were inspired by a small stretch of bayou along a road we often walk in the am with the pups.

   Hope fully I will be showing you more paintings this summer, but it is going to be a busy one with a couple trips planned.  I am looking forward to this fall - I am retiring from the whole 'JOB' scene the end of sept.  I think 41.5 years as a Nurse (mostly in Critical Care) is quite enough for me!!! I am looking forward to more time in the studio and more time with the Grandbabies!!!

   All 3 paintings are available in my Etsy shop = www.translucentfirefly.etsy.com

    All for now - hope to see you soon with more projects.

               Tera

 

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

 

Bees in the flower beds

Hallo,

  Another in my 'Bees' series finished off this weekend. This painting is 11 by 14 inches. 

  I started this painting with a cyanotype print and mounted it to a cradled panel. I then painted it with encaustic - the flowers I used pan pastels on.

  The bees were taken from photos and printed onto tissue paper to use as an under drawing and then I painted them with encaustic using a fine tip hot pen.

  I am debating putting this one in a float frame but for now the sides are painted black.

   Have a great week!!!

      Tera

 

Bee Buzz II to VI

Hallo,

  Finished off a few paintings in the studio today, including these 10 by 10 inch hexagon panels.

   These paintings all started off as cyanotype prints  which I mounted to the cradled panel. I then painted them with encaustic wax and used a bit of pan pastels also.

  There are 6 in this little series now with some bigger - regular shaped panels yet to come.

   Take Care

       Tera

 

Forest Blues

Hallo,

   Another double printed cyanotype project for you today. The first picture is the cyanotype after I bleached it back a bit.

  I then used some stencils of trees to make tree masks and cover up parts of the print with the masks - trying not only to arrange the trees nice but to 'save' some of the prettier parts of the print - and did another exposure.

  The second picture is after the second exposure with the tree masks.

  I then took the same stencils and used them to make trees in the background with colored pencils. (next time I will use lighter colors as they didn't show up as well as I envisioned after adding encaustic).

  Fourth picture - I added several layers of encaustic (the print is mounted on a cradled wood panel - print was done on watercolor paper) and then added some trees in the foreground.

      Lastly I added snow - 5th picture. And the last 4 pics is after I framed the painting in a black float frame

   I had fun with this one - have 3 others in the works. Two of them already had the trees colored sort of the same as this one and a couple layers of wax on them, just waiting finishing. The last one I still have to add trees in the background with pencils so I am going to try and color then lighter so they might show up a bit more.

   All for today - hope you are having a great day!!!

     Tera

  

 

More mini's

Hallo,

  Playing around with round wood slices this weekend. These I did a couple layers of wax onto directly and then added some left-over pieces from the tea bag print I used on 'Winter Garden'. 

  I added another layer of wax on top of the tea bag cyanotype print and then added some dried plants and flowers. The flowers are orchid blooms. I impressed the dried plants onto the wax and then added wax over the top to seal them in.

  They make really cute little desk toppers.

   All for today - Take Care

     Tera

 

'Winter Garden'

Hallo,

  I have a cyanotype encaustic mixed media painting for you today - that's a mouthful eh??

  This painting is 12W by 24H. I started with a base of encaustic medium on a cradled wood panel and then added a couple layers of white encaustic paint.

  I had done several cyanotypes onto tea bag paper which is thin enough to embed into the wax easily, but the paper is strong enough to survive the cyanotype rinsing unlike alot of thinner papers.

  I embedded the tea bag cyanotype in several layers with encaustic medium in between.

  Next I added some dried weeds of the same type that were used to make the cyanotype print to start with. I embedded them into the top layer of the wax and added some light layers of the wax over the top to seal while keeping the textures.

  Next, I went in with white encaustic paint and added 'snow' and used a bit of a stencil in the top corners. I added a bit of gold oil stick to accent the stencil and the edges just ever so slightly.

   I really like how this one turned out!! It will go to a blizzard themed show later this week.

      All for today - Take Care

          Tera

 

Iris Mania

Hallo,

   And just to show that I am still doing some painting in the studio, this one I finished up over the weekend.

  This panel is on its third (and last) rendition.....I had done 2 other paintings on this panel - well started them, didnt like them, set it aside, came back to it and started over...

   I used some drawings from and old flower book printed onto tissue paper as an under drawing. In the first picture you can see the drawings and I was starting to color the background with pan pastels.

  Pictures 3, 4 and 5 show the progression of one of the bigger iris.

  The last 3 pictures are of the finished painting.

Encaustic wax with pan pastels and a bit of oil sticks. It measures 12 inches wide by 24 inches tall.

   All for today - Have a great Monday ya'll.

                                                                                            Tera

 

Katie

Hallo,

  Well, I tried to put a pic of this finished painting at the top and THEN do the progression of the painting, but Blogger wouldn't let me......SO if you would rather not see the progression, just scroll all the way to the bottom. The last 4 pics are the finished painting.

   The first pic is the photo that I did this painting from - Katie is my SIL's horse. I isolated her in an edit program and printed it out in black and white onto tissue paper.(second photo)

  The third pic is the background that I did first. I am painting with encaustic as usual.

I used the photo on tissue paper as an under drawing and added encaustic to Katie with hot pens and a couple of fine tips.

  There is about 27 hours of painting into just Katie herself and another 6 to 8 between the background and finishing the bottom with grasses.

   The painting is 11 by 14 inches.

                                                                                             All for today - Have a great New Years weekend!!!!

    Take Care

             Tera