Iris Mania

Hallo,

   And just to show that I am still doing some painting in the studio, this one I finished up over the weekend.

  This panel is on its third (and last) rendition.....I had done 2 other paintings on this panel - well started them, didnt like them, set it aside, came back to it and started over...

   I used some drawings from and old flower book printed onto tissue paper as an under drawing. In the first picture you can see the drawings and I was starting to color the background with pan pastels.

  Pictures 3, 4 and 5 show the progression of one of the bigger iris.

  The last 3 pictures are of the finished painting.

Encaustic wax with pan pastels and a bit of oil sticks. It measures 12 inches wide by 24 inches tall.

   All for today - Have a great Monday ya'll.

                                                                                            Tera

 

Annndddd ANOTHER basket....

Hallo,

   Another basket for you. 

I started with the other earring of the pair as well as all the same supplies as the last one - except I added some red into some of the upper layers just for fun.

  It measures about 6 inches round and 2 and 1/2 inches high.

  All for today - Take Care

      Tera

 

A tisket, a tasket, another little basket....

Hallo,

   Well these little baskets are such fun to make - keeps my hands busy while hanging out on the couch in the evenings watching TV/movies.

   I had a pair of old earrings in my stash and decided to use the bigger part of each and make a couple baskets. The earring part is gold and black with rhinestones so I used some black and gold hemp twine for the wrapping. The base is a paper coil - first and second pics.

  The basket measures 6.5 inches round and 2 inches deep.

   All for now - have to get busy and finish cleaning my house.....I really like it when it is done but really greatly dislike the process of house cleaning!!!!

     Take Care

         Tera

 

Funky purple basket

Hallo,

 A funky little purple basket for you today. I started with a little round metal doohicky that was in my stash. I used paper core and hemp twine.

   Have a great day!!

       Tera

 

Digital butterfly

Hallo,

  Another round of digital experimenting. These were done of a butterfly photo I took at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha Nebraska last fall.

   I used mostly the same filters as yesterdays - not the steampunk one or the 'glass bird house.'

   Didn't play as long with this photo as we were running out of time in the class.

  All for now - Take Care

                                                                                                               Tera

 

A dive into digital art....

Hallo,

   I took a class this last weekend on digital art. This turned out to be quite fun and I can see wasting alot of time on the computer 'playing' if I don't watch myself!!! Rather dangerous.

   You start with a photo - in this case its a photo I took of a faded and wilted bouquet, a bird feeder, and some wilted camelia flowers from my tree out front of my house.

   The program picks up on the style and colors of the photo. Then you chose what filters to add (and there are ALOT to chose from) - you hit the go button and it shows you several options. You can save the pics at any time and then change the filters and go again - to the point that I can't even remember what ones I used for all of these. I think they included - underwater, iridescent, fantasy, bioluminescent, splash images....for the second to last one I added 'steampunk' and then on the last one I added 'glass bird house' as a typed in phrase (yup in addition to a bazillion filters you can type in stuff too).

   I have so many ideas turning about in my head right now that its crazy. I want to try some photos of paintings I have done and well the list is rather long......

     I will show you another example tomorrow.

  Take Care

          Tera

 

Flower basket

Hallo,

  Another basket to show you today - my time to paint in the studio has been a bit thin in the last couple weeks but there are works in progress.

  I found a coupler cute vintage wood trays at a thrift shop and decided to use them as a basket start. The tray had a rim/lip on it that I drilled some holes into to attach the coil to. I had some hemp twine that matched the colors of the flowers too.

  The basket is about  8.5 inches by 5.5 inches and about 2 inches tall.

    All for today - Take Care

             Tera