Hydrangea

Hallo,

   The transparency for this cyanotype print didn't work as well as I would have liked - too cluttered and too detailed, which didn't pick up in the print. First photo is how the plain cyanotype looked.

   I then added some color with colored pencil and decided to try it with encaustic as it looked much better with that bit of color. That is the second photo.

   The last 2 photos are the finished painting. I added several layers of encaustic medium and then layered 2 more photos printed onto tissue paper of smaller branches of hydrangea. Then I colored it all with pan pastels - colored over the original-colored pencil part a bit too.

   I wasn't as happy with this one as the first 2 paintings, but I have another hydrangea bush spotted in my neighborhood to take some pics of without that fence behind it and hopefully get a clearer print.

   All for today - Take Care

             Tera

 

Sunset Iris

Hallo,

  Another cyanotype with encaustic painting for you today. I started with another iris print - first picture.

I glued it to a wood panel and added several layers of encaustic medium.

   This time I colored the Iris with pan pastels - second pic is the coloring in progress. The pan pastels work very well with the wax, giving the iris more of a watercolor feel to it.

   The last 2 pics are the finished painting. It will be framed in a black float frame eventually(I ran out of studio time this last weekend - hadda go back to that work thing ).

   All for today - Take Care

       Tera

 

Royal Iris

Hallo, 

   I have been playing with cyanotypes. I did these a couple times with premade paper when my kids were little and decided to try and make my own thanks to a class with Painting with Fire (an online encaustic yearlong course). 

   I bought the paper making kit and made up a boatload of papers and starting printing them over the last couple weekends. 

   Instead of using plants and leaves and such, I made up transparencies using some of my own photos. Then you just put the transparency over the paper and expose it to the sun. That step is my first photo here.

  I have alot of prints to play with so you will be seeing alot of these!!!

   The second photo I have used colored pencils to color in the iris, a couple leaves and a bud.

                                                                                      I then glued the paper to a wood panel and added encaustic to the mix. The last 2 pictures are the finished piece. It is an 8 by 10 inch and eventually it will be framed in a black float frame. (I ran out of studio time this weekend)

     Take Care

         Tera

 

Italian door

Hallo,

   I have had this idea in my head for a long time and so even though it is kind of a common theme in home store places like Kirklands and such - I had to do it anyhow.  When my family was living in Germany, we used to see doors like this on trips to Italy and in France - Most were red but I changed that up a bit.

  Encaustic painting, 11 by 14 inches. Last photo is the finished painting.

    I used stencils for the background, the lower rock path and the door but modified the stencils with walnut inks, oil crayons and some pan pastels.

   The tree and the flower pots were done with a hot pen.
  Back in the studio today and playing with some cyanotypes, that I printed up last weekend.

   Have a great weekend!!!

      Tera