I have been working on this one for awhile now - another big driftwood piece.
The piece measures 28 inches long at its longest, 13.5 inches tall at its tallest and about 10 inches wide at the base with a couple more inches width in the branch sticking out.
Everything is painted with encaustic - even the wood itself. I first painted the driftwood for 2 reasons - one it helps to preserve the wood and two it gives an encaustic wax base to help attach all the pieces to it. I painted all the pieces before attaching them to the driftwood using encaustic paint and I also used some pan pastels on the vase and the seaweed (green fronds).
The vase was made with paper clay over a glass jar. I added green leaf designs with pan pastels and some gold decorations with a stencil, encasutic and then pan pastels.
The Octopus was formed with paper covered wire and plaster cloth.
The red coral is sisal rope, frayed out and painted.
The green seaweed fronds are paper covered rope with the paper frayed out and painted.
I have some more vases started for future pieces made with just plaster cloth and am thinking of trying to do some sea turtles. Now I just need to get to the beach and find me some good pieces of driftwood.
All for now - Have a great weekend!!!
Tera
