Large pair - first layers

 Hallo,
   Finished off these 2 paintings this weekend in my studio. the first pic is them side by side of course - second one is the left painting and third pic is the right painting.
  I am liking how they turned out!!! I had some thoughts about leaving well enough alone at the point of the second to last picture as I really like them at that point .....but they seemed to need just a bit more of something.
   After the first 3 pics I have a bunch of photos of my process along the way - by no means is there a photo for every step or layer, especially once I started adding color - at that point there is probably about 4 to 6 layers for each photo.....
  And the last photo is again the finished pair...
    Have a great day!!!
      Tera

First layers - neutral white encaustic with several shades of gray oil sticks.

shellac with black ink - preburn.

Shellac with black ink - post burn

Added some color then another shellac and black ink layer and burn.

Added more color and a layer of shellac with gold mica powders and burn

More layers of oil stick and then encaustic.

!!!! I MADE A CARD!!!!

 Hallo,
   Well I haven't made a card now since before Christmas ..... This one was a quick and easy one because I had the little robot panel made up from a long ago ATC kick. I found the scrabble letters in a secret (even to me) stash that I found while packing boxes for our up coming house reno......
   Valentines card for my Hubby of coarse.
    The little robot is from 'My Favorite things' but not sure if its still current.
   All for today - off to my studio to paint for awhile today and then some house  cleaning and maybe some yard work .....
   Take Care
      Tera

Locker hook rug with yarn

 Hallo,
   I had a bunch of thick yard left from several projects and decided to use them up by doing a locker hook rug.
  The yarn rugs go quickly and are really soft but they do take alot of yarn.
   Take Care
      Tera

Missin my kitties

Hallo,
  Short post this am as my heart is hurting . Had to say goodbye to both my kitties this week - both had been sick for awhile......
   Shadow is the gray one - we found out in August last year that he had a very large tumor growing in his mouth and several more starting down his neck. He got to the point this week that he couldnt swallow well anymore....
   The black one is Smitty and he has been loosing weight and having alot of trouble keeping food down as well as almost total loss of bowel , and in the last few days bladder control too. Poor thing was just a skinny bag of bones.
    Very hard to say goodbye but didnt want them to suffer either. The last 2 cats I had I have to admit that I held onto too long and didnt want to do that again.....
    All for today.....
       Tera

First mosiac glass project - lantern

Front of lantern

Hallo,
  Well I guess I have a new hobby - I should know better by now to take a cool class in something I have never done before(because I usually end up with another hobby to add to the many I already have). I took this mosaic glass class just to make one lantern......now I have all the tools, a large stash of pretty glass and 6 lanterns.......sigh....
  But look how pretty it is, not bad for a first try I think.
  This lantern has removable glass panels so we traced where the edge is and then pieced our glass. Added resin, let dry and put the panes back in. This lantern has an electric candle already in it which gives off a yellow glow but when I took pictures it didnt have batteries yet so I used some regular fairy lights. It looks so much better in real life.
  Whole bunch of pics of the process along the way....
 Off to work for the day.....
   Take Care
      Tera

wave sides - unlighted

Point Havisu

Hallo,
  Lots of pictures with this post today. This encaustic wax painting is about 25 layers, followed by lots of carving, followed by more layers added on top of the 'rocks' for texture, and then about 10 more layers of clear wax with oil sticks to add the 'water'.
  The painting is 24 inches tall by 36 inches wide.
   The top 2 pictures are the final version one laying down and one standing upright - the upright one catches a lot of light and shine where the laying down one is more true to the colors and actual look of the painting.
  The third picture shows the carving in progress - the whole painting was layered to the level of the copper brown color and then carved back, leaving some high spots for rocks and rims of the pools at the top of the painting. I started with a base of about 4 layers plain wax followed by 3 to 4 layers of 7 colors.
   I carved back, leaving the layers exposed on the edges of the pools and rocks. Once I had the carving the way I wanted it, I added a couple layers of clear wax to the pool and stream areas as a base for the oil sticks.
  I used oil stick colors with more transparent colors like pthylo blue and green gold and a turquoise color. I did many layers here too - the oil stick melts nicely into the wax and then ever so often I added another clear layer of wax....
  The last 4 pics(as well as the first 2 at top) are the final version of this painting.
    All for today - Take Care
        Tera

Clear wax layers to start with oil sticks.

Channeling Havasu

 Hallo,
   Just a quick post this am - this is a small practice piece for a large carved piece that is almost finished.
   Lots of wax layers here - base is 3 layers to prime the board, then 3 layers of 7 colors of wax. The first 2 pics show all the color layers as I am starting to carve into them.
 It is meant to look like some of the streams in Havasu Arizona with pools and then the stream running down from them - the photos are upside down for the first 2.
  The third and fourth pics show when I was done with carving and added some texture to the tops of the boulders in the stream bed and then some smaller pebbles....
  The last 3 photos show the various stages of adding the water. I used clear wax with pan pastels. My first try was with encaustic only for the water but there was not enough translucence for me so I scrapped that off and did it again with the pan pastels which was a bit more translucent but for the bigger painting I went with oil sticks to color the water and am happier with how that is going. I should be done with the bigger one soon - well one or 2 more days to work on it but looking like I wont get much studio time in the next few weeks.... so eventually....
   Meanwhile I do like how this one turned out - makes me want to do a couple more but the carving is very hard on my hands so will have to see about that....
   All for today - Take Care
      Tera