Hand painted plate with pink and yellow roses that I used as a base for this sweet little basket!!! I chose a simple pattern design so it would show off this beautiful plate better.
The basket is 10 inches round and 3.5 inches high and can be found on my Etsy shop - www.translucentfirefly.etsy.com
Have a great week!!!
Tera
Back with more baskets to show you over the next couple days. I am really looking forward to this fall when I can have more time to get in my studio to paint!!! (the retirement countdown is in full swing!!)
The base for this basket is a vintage hand painted plate. The basket measures 11 inches round and 4 inches tall and took me around 15 /16 hours to make.
I have been making so many baskets lately that my shoulders are starting to protest a bit with all the repetitive movements...... I should probably take a bit of a break but I have sooooo MANY pretty plates!!!!!
Listed this one and a couple other new baskets to my Etsy shop today - www.translucentfirefly.etsy.com
This one might make a great Father's Day gift - a place for his keys and other content of the pockets that seem to get spread all over the kitchen counter...... :)
Have a great day!!!
Tera
Finally have some paintings to show you - I haven't had too much time to paint in the last few months and have been working on these three for awhile now.
We have a Bayou themed show at our local art cooperative - ASDO (Arts and Design Society) here in Fort Walton Beach so I wanted to have a couple to enter. I almost always work on 2 or 3 paintings in the same theme when I am painting anyhow. After a few layers of encaustic with heat fusing each layer - you sometimes have to let the painting sit and cool a bit. I go back and forth between them so they can cool in-between.
The first painting is 8 by 10 inches and more fallish colors. The second one is 16 by 20 inches and the last 8 by 10 again. The last 2 I framed in black float frames and have turned them in for the show.
The paintings were inspired by a small stretch of bayou along a road we often walk in the am with the pups.
Hope fully I will be showing you more paintings this summer, but it is going to be a busy one with a couple trips planned. I am looking forward to this fall - I am retiring from the whole 'JOB' scene the end of sept. I think 41.5 years as a Nurse (mostly in Critical Care) is quite enough for me!!! I am looking forward to more time in the studio and more time with the Grandbabies!!!
All 3 paintings are available in my Etsy shop = www.translucentfirefly.etsy.com
All for now - hope to see you soon with more projects.
Tera
Hallo,
It has been a good spring for flowers in my yard this year. Both theses 2 iris and the 2 Clementi are new additions this year and arent they pretty. I have alot of my flowers in pots because we have a tiny yard that is full of tree roots.
I also have had a ton of gladiolus and callas blooming this year too and the dahlias are just starting.
I have so many pink and purple glads that I have started labeling them - I tie a string around the base (white for pink, green for purple and double green for any other color) . Come fall I plan to dig up all the bulbs, give away a lot of pink ones and replant along with some new bulbs in different colors.
All for today. Hope your spring is as colorful as mine is these days!!!!
Tera
Another pair of baskets to show you today.
The first one uses a seashell slice for the base and gray with greens for the cording. I love the simple swirl pattern lately.
The second one I did not use a base and just made from the coil. The main cording is a variegated brown with the same greens used for the swirl pattern.
Both baskets are about 8 inches round and about 2.5 inches high.
All for now - Take Care
Tera
2 baskets for you today - first is red with orange and yellow and the second is gray with red, orange and yellow.
The base for these baskets is a seashell slice that I get at a local flea market and the cording is from Hobby Lobby. The cording is a bit thicker than I use for other baskets, so they make up a bit quicker.
Both baskets are about 6 inches round and 2 inches high.
I am doing a pop up sale with my baskets at a local art gallery near me - Artful Things Gallery in Niceville FL.
I also have a basket class scheduled for june - so hopefully will have some people to take the class!
All for today - Take Care
Tera
Trying something new for basket bases - I made this one from resin and seashells. I have 2 molds in good sizes for baskets. The one is clear with a turquoise blue tint to it.
The basket is 9.5 inches round and 3.5 inches tall.
I will be making more of these resin bases. They are light weight and easy to work with.
All for today - Take Care
Tera
