Run for the hills

Hallo,

  Except for the numerous pics, a short and sweet post today. I did this painting the same way as yesterdays post, using another photo from the same are of Wyoming in early sept.\

  Have a great day!!

      Tera

 

Antelope

Hallo,

   Well I am headed to a show this week in Savannah but finished off 2 more paintings to take with me. This first photo is the finished painting and then I start with the basic background and the progression of the painting.

   The painting is encaustic of course. I did several layers of medium to prime the board - this one is 8 by 8 inches. Next I did a basic background for my painting - sky and hills/ground. I used a photo that I took in Wyoming in early September somewhere alone Lone Bear Road/Ttt Ranch Road. I printed it out in color and embedded it into the wax. I usually print the photos in black and white because I use them as an under drawing, so it is completely covered with paint and the color won't show any how - but was trying out my sons color printer.....

I isolate the image and print it out onto tissue paper, when embedded into the wax the paper almost completely disappears, leaving you just the image. That is the third picture.

 I then get out my hot pen with a fine tip and start adding encaustic paint to paint the image and then the background grasses. I enhanced the sky also with brushes and some pan pastels to add some depth and texture. The next several pictures show how the painting progressed from there. 

The antelope alone took a bit over 3 hours to do and the grasses took about 4 or 5 hours....

     All for today - Have another one for you tomorrow.

          Take Care

                  Tera

   

 

'Oh so pretty"

Hallo,

  Another photo encaustic painting for you today. 

   I feel I should explain photo encaustic just to clarify. Basically, it means a photo was used along with encaustic medium and /or encaustic paint. In its simplest form, a photo is glued to a board and then 1 or more layers of encaustic medium (without pigment) are added. These paintings of mine are pretty much at the other end of the spectrum. I use the photo more as an under drawing and the photo itself is completely covered with encaustic paint (medium with pigments added). I love being able to add textures and change the colors of the original photo if I want.

    These 2 photos are from the the many ones I took at Eaton Ranch. Specifically this horse is Forest whom we got to do a photo shoot with. He is very photogenic!!!

   I started with a background of blues with splatters of bronze, blue, turquoise and white. A couple layers of medium to smooth the painting back out again - the photos with lay nicer to embed on a less textured surface. Both photos were printed out onto tissue paper. 

   I started with the top photo and added alot of detail and texture and then smothed him out with a couple layers of medium - to smooth the way for the next photo but also to push that photo into the background a bit (to add some depth to the painting...)

    I then embedded the second photo and did all his details and texture. All the detail work on both photos was done with a very fine tip hot pen. Total hot pen work on this painting was about 6 hours' worth as the studio yesterday. 

   The last part of the painting was adding back a few more splatters and a bit of pan pastels in the foreground to give Forest something to stand on.

    All for today - Take Care

        Tera

 

Ranchhand

Hallo,

  I finally got back into my studio after my Wyoming adventure, to finish off this last painting from the workshop I took at Eaton Ranch with Clare O'Neill. 

  This was a photo encaustic workshop hosted by Eaton Ranch. We got to see the herd wrangled in from the mountain pastures every morning, could ride every day if we wished (I only rode twice - it had been over 15 years and 2 knee replacements since I had ridden so I was just a 'bit' sore after the second ride.....)

If you ever wanted a 'Dude Ranch' experience, I would highly recommend Eaton Ranch!!! They do it right!!!

And if you want an awesome photo encaustic class then Clare O'Neill is the person to go to!!! I had such a wonderful time my week at the ranch with this class!!! I have enough painting fodder to last me a LONG time!!! I must have taken over 2000 pictures. (And another 8 or 900 during the week I spent at my brothers place near Centennial Wyoming !!)

   Anyhow the first 2 pictures are of the finished painting. The next 2 pictures are the photos I worked from. 

   The background photo was taken somewhere along Lone Bear Road/ Ttt Ranch Road. I printed it out and glued it to my wood panel and then covered it with several layers of encaustic as a base. I worked on the sky first and added some color and texture to the clouds while I was deciding what to add to the picture in the foreground. I had a few good pics of antelope from the same area as the background photo, but the colors were too similar, and the antelope just blended in too much. (Although I will probably try one in the future). 

  I printed out the horse - photo taken at Eaton Ranch - onto tissue paper and embedded that into the encaustic on the painting. The tissue paper sinks into the encaustic wax and pretty much disappears, leaving just your printed image (I did isolate the horse before I printed).

  I did some initial coloring with some wax crayons - which is represented by the last photo, mostly grasses in the foreground. That was all I had time for up in Wyoming.

   Yesterday I got out my hot pens and spent several hours adding color and texture to the hills and trees in the background - to the point where none of the original photo showed any more (I used the photo more as an under drawing to paint over) Last but not least I did a couple more hours work with the hot pen adding in the grasses and a bit of detail and texture to the horse too. Total all hot pen work was about 5 hours' worth, on top of what I had already done.

   All for today - Take Care!!

      Tera

    

 

Hallo,

 Two more paintings from my photoencaustic class in Wyoming. These are both 8 by 10 inches and I will probably put them into a couple of black float frames.

   The photo I used for both of these is the third photo - which I isolated the horse and printed onto tissue paper to embed into the encaustic wax.

  The bottom portions of both paintings has a shellac burn on it and I added shadows and shading around the horse with pan pastels and sennlier oil crayons.

  I have one more painting using the same photo but it needs to be finished off when I get back into my studio(probably next weekend).

     All for today - Take Care

         Tera

 

Photoencaustic - Forest

Hallo,

I have been up in Wyoming at Eaton Ranch in Wolf at a photoencaustic class. We got to take pictures of the horses and even go riding in addition to the encaustic class. It was a wonderful class and trip for me!!!

  The First 2 pictures are 2 of my finished paintings. The next 2 are the original photos that I took to use in the paintings.

  I did a colorful encaustic background on 2 boards.

  The photos were isolated and printed out onto tissue paper. I put a layer of white encaustic under where the horses would go. The next 2 pictures show how the tissue paper disappears into the wax. Then I added some texture and other stuff to hide the edges better. 

  I was very happy with these 2 paintings!!! One of them sold on the last day when we had a little open house!!!

    All for today - Take Care

         Tera

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Marsh summer

Hallo,

  Another in the current series I am working on - more 'marsh' than ocean this time, kinda like the marshy areas around Savannah GA.

  The first Picture is the finished painting. 

   Encaustic with layers alternating between shellac and pigment burns with pan pastels and occasionally an oil stick layer in there too.

   I did most of the grasses and grass texture with a hot pen and a fine tip.

   The second picture starts with the progression of the painting - probably has about 7 to 10 layers at this point.  And then the pictures progress as you scroll down, and the last picture is almost finished.

    Have a great weekend. I am really looking forward to a couple days in the studio!!!

         Take Care

                Tera