I had forgotten to post this one because she went to a show right after I finished her.
This is a 15 by 22 cyanotype on watercolor paper that I mounted to a cradled wood panel. I then added encaustic medium and colored it with pan pastels in several layers.
Lastly I added gold 'fireflies' with encaustic paint.
She is framed in a black float frame.
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Tera
Thought I would show you a couple in progress pictures with this one. This first picture is the original cyanotype done with beach grasses, weeds and a horseshoe crab shell that I found. In addition to the cyanotype fluid for this wet cyanotype, I spritzed it with some vinegar diluted in water and put some soap bubbles on top too.
The next 2 pictures show how I water colored the grasses, weeds and shell.
I mounted the paper to a cradled panel and added a few layers of encaustic medium and then enhanced the water and the moon with a bit of pan pastels.
Framed in a black float frame it measures 16.5 inches wide by 23.5 inches tall and 2 inches deep.
"Moonlight on the bay'
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Tera
Calling this one 'Bay View'. This painting started out as a cyanotype print onto watercolor paper with some weeds and grasses I collected on the bay on morning on a walk with my pups and the hubby.
I then water colored the grasses and glued the paper to a cradled wood panel.
I then added several layers of encaustic medium. Next step was painting some grass and weeds on with encaustic paint. Lastly, I enhanced the sky and water with pan pastels.
I framed it with a black float frame. It measures 16.5 inches wide, 23.5 inches tall and 2 inches deep.
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Tera
Love my weekend studio time. This is a painting I thought I finished last weekend, but all week long at work he kept talking to me, telling me he needed something more. Sometimes I really hate not being able to paint every day, it is sometimes hard to stay in the rhythm of a painting only working on the weekend. But sometimes it gives me a chance to step back and look at a painting for awhile and get a sense of what it needs.
The first photo is were this painting ended up last weekend and I was happy but the more I looked at it... I take pics of my paintings not only in progress but at the end of my weekend in the studio and look at the photos throughout the week. I feel like it keeps me in touch with the 'flow' of my paintings in progress so I can jump in quicker when the weekend comes.
The second photo is how this painting ended up yesterday at the end of the day and like a sigh or a big breath of fresh air, I KNOW he is now finished. Sometimes I get that feeling and sometimes I just have to look at it awhile longer.
I darkened some areas in the sky a touch and even more in the water to 'ground' the marsh grasses. I made the fog darker/thicker too and then added some grasses back in with the hot pen. The sky, water and fog were done/colored almost totally with pan pastels(I started the painting with a white/gray/light blue encaustic base). The grasses are encaustic paint with a fine tip hot pen.
Total all there are a ton of layers - the sky, water and fog is probable 8 to 9 layers - pan pastels, fuse, very light layer of medium and repeat. The grasses are about 10 layers total all -the fog pan pastel applications flattened the textures there a bit and then I would add more on top - several times.
The third marsh painting is in the works....
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Tera
Another mixed media encaustic today - rubber stamps painted with watercolor and covered with several layers of clear encaustic and then several stencils with pan pastels.
This one is a bit more structured I guess is the word but was fun to do.
11H by 14 W framed in a float frame.
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Tera
Finished off a new small series in the studio this week - this one is 16 by 20 inches.
Encaustic, oil sticks, pan pastels, shellac and mica powders. Many layers.
Still working mostly left handed but the shoulder is healing nicely.
Speaking of the shoulder, off to PT I go.....
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Tera
