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.
All for today - Take Care
Tera
I found and old silver bowl at a thrift store, shined it up and used it as a base for a sweet little basket. I stands about 5 inches tall and 8.5 inches round at the top.
I used 1/4 inch coil from Dick Blick art store and some hemp twine I found at Joanns, beads are also from Joanns.
This one took me about 2 weeks total.
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Tera.
I typically keep my hands busy when relaxing on the couch watching TV at night. This basket took me the better parts of a month and a half.
I used a clay basket start that I got on Etsy which is really convenient because it has the holes for thread when starting the basket. And it was really pretty all by itself.
I used a 1/4 inch coil that I got from Dick Blick art store and hemp twine from Hemptique.
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Tera
Time to do some catching up - I made these 2 little 8 by 8 inch paintings from 2 double exposure cyanotypes I did back in October.
Mounted them onto a wood panel and added encaustic.
They make sweet little paintings!
One down 4 o5 to go...
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Tera
Just poppin in real quick to show you the last 2 paintings finished up this weekend in the Winter Forest/Blues series.
Both are 11 by 14 framed in a black float frame.
I started with a double exposure cyanotype and then painted with encaustic.
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Tera
A second cyanotype with encaustic painting today. I did this one pretty much the same as my last post. Since the colored pencil trees didnt show up as well as I would have liked, this time I painted the trees in the background with encaustic to make them show up better. Now I wonder if they dont overshadow the white and blue cyanotype trees.....
I have 2 more in this series to finished off, so maybe I can find a happy middle ground...
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Tera
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
