Terra Rustica II

Hallo,

  ( First picture is the final rendition of this painting - I toned down the sky a bit after looking at it for awhile)

  Another rusty encaustic painting for you today. This one is 16H by 20 W.

I started with a somewhat wild sunset(we have had some really wild sunsets around here lately) and just did plain medium on the bottom half with some texture. The first picture is after I painted the first step of the rusted metal stuff onto it.

  The second picture is after I used the rusting solution on it.

   The third picture is after I added some patinas with gold/green and copper/blue.

   The rest of the photos show the progression of adding details with my hot pen and wax to define the mountains . and the last picture is the finished painting.

   All for today - there is more rust yet to come. I have 4 small 8 by 8 inch panels in the works.

       Take Care
          Tera

 

Terra Rustica I

Hallo,

   I have been playing with rust and patina techniques lately along with encaustic.

   I did a background of wax and thought I would like a mostly simple sky. Thought about doing something with the lines in the first pic but ended up covering them up. This was rusted metal over the was for the first picture.

  In the second photo I added some gold/green patina and the beginings of copper/blue patina and then added some more color to the sky.

The third picture is the patinas and rust.

   The fourth photo I toned down the sky's wildness a bit and started adding some lines with wax and my hot pen to define the mountains a bit.

  The last photo is the finished painting. I added a bit of color back into the sky and finished off some more defining lines of the mountains.

The painting is 11H by 14 W and I finished off the sides with black.

   All for today - more rusty stuff to come!!!

                                                                                                               Take Care

                                                                                                                    Tera

 

Another sunset locker hook rug.

Hallo,

  Another locker hook rug with a sunset theme. Both of these recent rugs will be mailed out soon to 2 of my Nieces.

   Over the last few years I have tried to do a rug for both our Moms, all our siblings and the Nieces and Nephews and I am down to just 5 left to do  - plus a couple new ones for myself to match my kitchen remodel.....

All for today - Take Care

                                                                                                              Tera

 

Sunset

Hallo,

   Back to making rugs during my couch/tv time in the evenings.

   Cotton fabric for this one, in a sunset theme.

  I have been teaching  a locker hook rug class with our local, all volunteer adult learning group here in town (CLL - Center for lifelong learning). This was a rug I started just before class started about a month ago to use to demonstrate with.

   All for today.

     Take Care

         Tera

 

Another lighthouse

Hallo,

  Finished this one off in the studio this weekend. The first pic is the finished painting and then I started with a sot from near the begining and progressing along the way.

  The board is primed with about 4 layers of encaustic and then I started adding color for the sky/ocean and sand dunes.

  Once I had the background where I wanted it - I added 2 layers of clear encaustic in preparation to incise the lines. Going for a vintage style map with the grid lines.... 

I took one shot with my hot pen and my favorite tip - the one I do most of the lighthouse, rocks and grasses/dunes with.

  The last pic is a close-up of the finished lighthouse.

  This painting measures 12H by 16 W

  Have a great week.

     Tera

 

Heron's rest

Hallo,

   I finished this painting about a week and a half ago but it has been crazy busy lately for me....

    I have a bunch of pics and the last 2 at the bottom are the finished piece - a close up of the heron and then the whole painting.

  The background - sky and lake and beginnings of the tree line and marsh are all done in the usual way with encaustic wax - melted layers painted with brushes and fused with a torch.  Some textures added with brushes and fused and then I started with my hot pen stylus. I added details to the tree line and the marsh grasses with the fine tip hot pen. 

   I almost stopped there because I really liked it(third picture), but the more I looked at it the more it told me it needed just a little bit more.

   I printed out a picture of the heron from a book I have on clip art, onto rice paper and embedded it into the painting with clear encaustic(noncolored). I then used the hot pen stylus to paint in the heron.

The 5th picture shows the hot pen tip I used. The heron alone took me about 5 hours to do but I am super happy with how he turned out!!!! The marsh grasses took me almost 2 hours.

  I should have this one listed on my Etsy and Redbubble sites by the end of the week....

 

Coral Forest - black and white rework.

Hallo,

  I did this black and white coral painting several years ago for a black and white themed show and it has been asking for color for some time now. So this weekend I decided to give it the color it so desired. The painting was originally done in late 2017.....

   The first 3 pics show the progression  and the last 3 pics show the final piece.

  I used oil sticks mostly for the color on top of the original wax, along with a couple light layers of plain medium to seal in the oil sticks better.

  All for today - Take Care

     Tera

 

Vintage ocean map

Hallo,

   This painting is 24 by 36 inches and I really love how this one turned out!!! I had done the background and the grid and really liked it but it just needed a bit of something else.

    I printed off 2 images onto rice paper and embedded them into the wax and then painted over them with my hot pens. One pen I have a very fine tip on, like an old fountain pen. and the other I switched back and forth between 2 small flat tips like an iron for smoothing. 

   First photo is the finished painting and then a few pics of the progression.  Towards the end are some close ups and one shows the sailboat in progress and finished.

   The painting still has the wide open space feel I liked but a few places added for the eyes to 'land'.

   Have a great day!!!

       Tera

 

Ocean map 2

Hallo,

   Another small grid line ocean type painting - can for the life of me think of a good name for this series of paintings. I wanted to leave one of these alone at this point. Yesterdays painting was very similar until I added some images and antiqued it with a transparent tea colored glaze. 

   All for today - Have a great one!!!

     Tera