Wind Runner

Hallo,

   I have had some horse photos in my stash for while waiting their turn and so this one I finished off this last weekend. 

    I did an encaustic background first and then added the horse - printed onto rice paper. The rice paper virtually disappears into the wax leaving the image to be the star.

  I then added more encaustic for color and texture and some oil sticks too. 

   The second picture is the finished one this time around, although I really like the first picture was too so there might have to be one similar to that in the future. One thing is for sure - you will be seeing more horses. I have a photo shoot planned for the first weekend in April with a friend of mines horses.

  All for today - Take Care

                                                                                                 Tera

 

Octopuses garden

Hallo,

   This project has been in the works for the last several weeks and was done with the theme of 'monochromatic' in mind for the current show at Artel Gallery in Pensacola.

  It all started with a year long encaustic course I am taking called 'Painting with fire' - a couple classes about encaustic and how well it 'plays' with natural materials. 

                                                                                                           The base is a small piece of drift wood. And this is where yesterdays post about coiling got started. I used a coiling technique to try and simulate brain coral( semi successfully I think). The fan coral is a jute rope that I frayed out and dipped and painted with encaustic and the rest of the types of coral are made with paper clay and then painted with encaustic.

   I also did a little octopus out of paper clay and painted him and then did a shellac burn layer and tucked him in under one side of the log.

  I had alot of fun with this little project and will be doing more. I have 2 really big pieces of driftwood in my stash that I will do next.

   All for today - Take Care  

            Tera

 

New couch projects - coiling small baskets

Hallo,

   I picked up a new hobby - like I really needed another one.....

   I have been doing some experimenting with encaustic and natural fibers and had some ideas to use this coiling technique that is normally used to make baskets.

   I practiced with different stuff making some small baskets.

  The small green one is made with a paper coil, wrapped with some rough green jute.

  The other 3 are cotton coils - 1/4 inch ropes - wrapped with colored hemp twine. The hemp twines came from my paper crafting stash in my craft room at home. I had originally used some to decorate cards.

    All for today - Take Care

       Tera