'Winter Garden'

Hallo,

  I have a cyanotype encaustic mixed media painting for you today - that's a mouthful eh??

  This painting is 12W by 24H. I started with a base of encaustic medium on a cradled wood panel and then added a couple layers of white encaustic paint.

  I had done several cyanotypes onto tea bag paper which is thin enough to embed into the wax easily, but the paper is strong enough to survive the cyanotype rinsing unlike alot of thinner papers.

  I embedded the tea bag cyanotype in several layers with encaustic medium in between.

  Next I added some dried weeds of the same type that were used to make the cyanotype print to start with. I embedded them into the top layer of the wax and added some light layers of the wax over the top to seal while keeping the textures.

  Next, I went in with white encaustic paint and added 'snow' and used a bit of a stencil in the top corners. I added a bit of gold oil stick to accent the stencil and the edges just ever so slightly.

   I really like how this one turned out!! It will go to a blizzard themed show later this week.

      All for today - Take Care

          Tera

 

Great Grandparents

Hallo,

   Something sorta new for you today - still playing with cyanotypes though. I used an old photo of my Great Grandparents - wedding photo circa 1889 - made the transparency and used it to make a cyanotype print - first photo.

  Second photo - I bleached the original print back with washing soda and then toned in green tea.

   Third photo is after I colored the toned print in with colored pencils - I went a bit darker with the colors since I knew I was going to add encaustic which would mute the colors just a touch.

   The last photo is the finished painting - I added several layers of encaustic medium(without pigment) and then added encaustic paint (encaustic medium with pigments) in spots for more texture and depth. Lastly I added some pigment stick to the edges and ground by their feet.

  I have a few more old family photos that I will probably do similar paintings of in the future.

   All for today - Take Care

     Tera

Cyanotype double exposure - 6

Hallo,

  Last one for awhile. Before and after double exposure cyanotype. 

    Take Care

        Tera

 

Cyanotype - double exposure 5

  Hallo - number 5 - before and after double exposure cyanotypes....

   Take Care

      Tera

 

Cyanotype - double exposure 4

Hallo,

   Before and after #4 - double exposed cyanotype.

Two more to go then something different....

    Take Care

       Tera

 

Cyanotype - double exposure 3

  Hallo,

    Set # 3 for you today.

 First photo =  wet cyanotype print done with weeds and flowers, exposed, rinsed and let dry - then bleached back a bit with washing soda, rinsed and let dry.

  Second photo = Coated again with cyanotype solution, added flowers and leaves stragically over spots I wanted to keep and exposed to sunlight, rinsed and let dry.

  I really love how you can still see the original print in the background even in the parts you didn't preserve by placing stuff over them on the second pass. I really adds alot of depth to the prints.

   All for today - Take Care

      Tera

 

Cyanotype - double exposure 2

Hallo,

  Set # 2 for you done in the same manner as yesterdays - I am too lazy to retype it all today, sorry about that.....the caffeine isn't doing a durn thing for me this morning!!!

   Take Care

      Tera