Baskets

Hallo,

   My hubby and I were out of town for 2 weeks on a driving trip up to the midwest. A total of 6 days of drive time - 2 days at a time - long days of driving too. I have a hard time sitting that long without something to do so I brought along some supplies to make a few little baskets.  For driving I use a slightly thicker cord than I usually use because it is easier to work with in the car. 

   Purple and turquoise were the colors of choice this time. I had one other one too but left it as a gift for the Hosts of our AirBnB in Nebraska - they were AWESOME!!!

    All for now - Take Care

      Tera

 

Hidden Wabbit, flower refuge

Hallo,

  Another Cyanotype and encaustic mixed media painting for you. First photo is the cyanotype as I was beginning to color with pencils. 4th photo is when I was finished with the colored pencil. I mounted it onto a cradled wood panel. I then added several layers of encaustic medium.

  For the 3D flowers I got out some paper clay and made up the flower petals and once they were dry I glued them together with a long piece of twine to use as stems. I painted them with encaustic paint and then embedded them into the wax on top of my painting.

  I finished off the edges with some blue pan pastels and then some gold oil stick and gold encaustic paint over that just for a bit of bling. There are some touches of gold on the 3D flower petals too.

  Framed in a black float frame - that was a challenge to do with the 3D stuff sticking out in front!!!

   All for today - Take Care

         Tera

 

Anemone garden

Hallo,

  I finished off this driftwood piece for a 3D themed show at my local art cooperative this last weekend. 

  I found the driftwood piece on a morning walk on the bayside a while back. I attached it to the flat wood round with some screws on the underside.

  The first 4 pics are all my doo dads before I painted them. They are all made of paperclay - except a little holey wood piece to the left in the first picture. The paperclay is air dry and holds the encaustic paint very well.

                                                                                                             The next 3 pics are of the front after I painted everything. The anemones in blues and purples, the octopus in greens and the tube coral in orange/pinkish reds with yellow tentacles made from some crochet thread.

     The last 3 pics are of the back side.

     This was such a fun piece to do - I have so many ideas for my collection of driftwood.\

   All for now - Take Care

       Tera

 

Wittle Bwown Wabbit

Hallo,

    We have a 3D show coming up at our local art cooperative and this is going to be one of my entries.

    I started with a photo of mine of the rabbit - isolated him, turned him into a negative and printed him onto a transparency. I then used the transparency to make the cyanotype print.

   I layed down the transparency of my rabbit onto cyanotype paper and then layered some weeds over the top of the transparency sheet and printed them in the sun for about 10 minutes.

   Once the cyanotype was rinsed and dried, I used colored pencils to color my rabbit. I then glued the paper to a cradled wood panel.

   Next, I got out my paper clay and made up some clay weeds to look like the real weeds I used and added them to the top. I then added several layers of encaustic medium (beeswax with natural tree resin).

                                                                                     I used pan pastels to color the weeds on the base  and then used encaustic paint (encaustic medium with pigments added) to paint the clay weeds.

    The painting is 8 by 10 inches and will be framed in a black float frame.

      All for today -- Take Care

                Tera

 

Moonlight on the Bay

Hallo,

   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'

     All for today

                                                                                                Take Care

                                                                                                      Tera

 

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

 

Beach grasses

Hallo,

   Well more cyanotypes to show you in the next few days. A few weeks ago the hubby and I took the pups for a morning walk on the bay and I collected a bunch of grasses and weeds from the beach and even found a horseshoe crab shell and I used them to make 3 large cyanotype prints.

   I did the prints on 15 by 22 inch watercolor paper. I even had to order custom made boards and float frames due to the odd size.

   I wanted to leave one of the 3 mostly untouched so with this one all I did was use some blue colored pencils to clarify a bunch of the lines and enhance some shadows here and there. It is glued to a cradled panel and when dry I used a couple layers of cold wax to seal it. The only other thing I did was to add a bit of oil stick to the edges (with blending medium to make it more translucent and to help it dry quicker). 

  I really like how it looks in the float frame.!!

                                                                                  I should be done with the other 2 in this series this weekend sometime so stop on back.

    Take Care

        Tera