Bay View

Hallo,

    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.

   All for today

      Take Care

           Tera

 

Circles of life

Hallo,

  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.

   All for today - Take Care

      Tera

 

Zentangle mandalas

Hallo,
   Showing some zentangle pieces that I did as samples for my 'Colorful Zentangled Mandalas' class for our all volunteer group  here in town. All the teachers and admin are volunteers and the fees for classes are very low, just to cover admin costs and for some of the classes a fee for class supplies.
   These samples are a base pattern of a mandala from a set of books by Ben Kwok - then you fill in the mandala with zentangle patterns.
   Next I colored them either with watercolors or pencils.
   The first 2 pics are the same mandala and patterns - first one before coloring and the second one after watercoloring.
  The third picture is the same base mandala as the first with different tangles, also colored with watercolor.
  The last 2 pics are before and after with a different mandala and patterns and then after colored in with colored pencils.
     The books by Ben Kwok are available on Amazon and he has a bunch - mandalas and several books with all kinds of animals and one or 2 with different objects.
   All for today - Take Care
      Tera

Treasured Memory

 Hallo,
    A short post today to show you a sympathy card I made for our Neighbor/Friend who just lost his Father.
  I used a stamp from 'Stamps Happen' that I stamped onto watercolor paper and water colored with Koh-I-Noor watercolors. I attached that image to a beautiful black shimmery cardstock from Paper Temptress called onyx metallic (you can see it better in the last photo).
  I used a vellum overlay - also from Paper Temptress and stamped/embossed a phrase from Prickley Pear in gold. I edged the top of the vellum with gold metallic pen as well as the corner with the pretty flourish on it - which is also from Paper Temptress.
  All for today - trying to finish off some projects in the craft room today....
      Tera

Springs glads

 Hallo,
   Sunday morning, pre-posting as I fully plan to sleep in :)
   My card today features a stamp from Papertrey Ink. I stamped it onto watercolor paper with white embossing powder (clear powder works too, the white will show up a bit 'whiter' sometimes :)
  I then used watercolor paints to color it in - I like the effect of the white lines.
  I cut the image out with a Spellbinders die and edged it with Danube blue ink from memento and then layered it to 2 ribbons onto blue cardstock.
  I used purple fabric paint from tulip for the dots - one of the top ones was a bit too goopy and got smudged a bit ( the Viva décor pens do a better job and dry faster  than the fabric paint too,  but I was trying to save $$ and the fabric paint is less expensive - honestly once it is used up, I wont be using it anymore.....)
   All for today - Hope you are having a great weekend!!!!
    Tera

#4 Watercolor class

Hallo,
  Well this is my last class for this year - I am planning on teaching again for the second session next year. (first session will be a bit tight on time with getting DD off to college and school starting - wont have any time to work on the class over the summer - I have to start waaayy ahead of time because of that thang that always seems to mess up my crafting time - work.....too bad the work thang is what funds my craft budget ....)
  I was a really bad girl this last week and my craft budget is now trashed until  - oh about the end of the summer - I have some fun new toys on the way though  - a Grand Mark from Accu cut which was on sale for 200  dollars less than it normally costs. I have had some dies from my friend Vicki Chrisman - www.vickichrisman.blogspot.com  that I have been wanting FOREVER!!! ( and a couple other of their dies that #1 were too cool to pass up -  #2  the accu quilt dies to cut fabric strips for my newest addiction - locker hook as it is the same machine and all the Accuquilt Studio dies are interchangeable with the Accucut Grand Mark.....and someday when I decide to get back into quilting it will make it easy to add some quilting dies (thats the part I didnot like about quilting was the cutting of all the pieces).
   Well enough blathering....todays class we combined watercolor with the blendable pencils. I asked the class to have a watercolored piece done ahead of class so it would be dry to work on with the pencils.
    What I often do when I combine the 2 is do a light base color of watercolors to more or less block in the colors or if I am working on just cardstock instead of watercolor paper I will often just wash in the backgrond and then color all the rest with pencils.
   I did one of todays images onto the watercolor paper and the other on cardstock - cryogen white.
The trick to using watercolors on regular cardstock is minimal water - so pick up the color with a drier brush than you would with watercolor paper as the cardstock is not nearly as absorbent and if it gets to wet may pill or warp. The cardstock will warp a bit any way but the more water the more warp. I usually let my cardstock dry mostly and then put it under a book to dry the last little bit as it helps it to flatten out a bit.
  Once dry you can add pencil on top to finish coloring your image - pencil onto watercolor paper is definatly not as smooth going as the cardstock but gives a different look and can add some nice texture too.
  Both of todays images are from Flourishes - www.flourishes.org and we used Koh-i-noor pencils and watercolors.
   All for today - off to the couch to do some more work on my locker hook project.
Take Care
   Tera

#2 Watercolor class

Hallo,
  A very rainy day here in NW Florida. It has been raining since the we hours of the morning and it looks like to continue through saturday night with a short break and rain again Sunday night and on into late Monday or even Tuesday. But that is a good thing as we need the rain and it was so nice to sleep this morning with the rumble of thunder and the sound of rain!!! And there is nothing like sitting either in my craft room or in the living room doing crafts or reading a good book in the rain!!!
  Course my puppy loves to walk in the rain so she still takes me for a walk....
   Well today I am showing you the photos of my demo board for the second watercolor installment of my 'Coloring for cardmakers' class with the CLL. We used 2 images from Flourishes - both we used before in the pencil section of class, so I thought it would give a different look to do them with watercolors too. I embossed both images in gold - the cherry blossums in an antique gold and the pointsettas is a brightrer gold. For card makers who still want to do watercolors but are a bit shy about the 'out of the lines' look of watercolors, then embossing the image can make coloring with watercolors a shade more precise because of the little  ridge  that the embossing has.
   The very first image of both I did a very light wash and then with a dry brush pulled the wash color back out of the flower petals so the red color I wanted to use on them would stay truer red. The leaves being green it would affect because of the blue already in the green color.
  I darkened the background to one side of each of the images as a 'shadow'  and gradually added layers of color to darken and define the image until it was what I wanted. Although I almost left the pointsetta more pink like the second image just because I liked that soft color..
   I will have some sample cards made up to show you in the next couple days - I plan to give one card to each of my students just so they have a finished project - with the images I have used -  to look at too. ( we aren't acually making cards in this class - I am just demonstrating coloring techniques and showing them a few things about coloring with the blendable pencils and watercolors)
  All for today - I am headed off to the couch to work on my new locker hook rug project - I will have to get some photos of that too  - when the sun peeks out again :)
   Have  great weekend!!!!
     Tera

Coloring class - watercolors

  http://www.iostamps.com/
Hallo,
   I am a bit late postiong the pictures from my friday class - this was the first of the watercolor section of my class. I first gave them a big sheet of watercolor paper to practice on - wet on wet washes, then wet to dry and so forth. Some of the folks had played with watercolors before and some not so much.
  I believe they had fun . They all really seem to like doing flowers the best but then again between Flourishes and Impression Obsession  - so do I :)
Todays stamp is a new one from   Impression Obsession - called 'wild sweetheart rose' and I saw it done in watercolors on one of the gals on the DT's blogs (sorry I don't remember which) and had to try it myself.
  Check out IO's stamps here - www.iostamps.com
   The second stamp is from Serendipity Stamps and you can find thayt one here - http://www.serendipitystamps.com/
I love doing 'guy' cards with this one!!!
   Well I ended up on call for work tonight so I have a few hours this am that I am going to catch up on some craft stuff - then I will pick my DH up at the airport (he made a quick trip home for his younger brother's 50th birthday party)
   All for today - Take Care
        Tera