Moonlight on the Bay

Hallo,

   Thought I would show you a couple in progress pictures with this one.  This first picture is the original cyanotype done with beach grasses, weeds and a horseshoe crab shell that I found. In addition to the cyanotype fluid for this wet cyanotype, I spritzed it with some vinegar diluted in water and put some soap bubbles on top too.

  The next 2 pictures show how I water colored the grasses, weeds and shell.

  I mounted the paper to a cradled panel and added a few layers of encaustic medium and then enhanced the water and the moon with a bit of pan pastels.

  Framed in a black float frame it measures 16.5 inches wide by 23.5 inches tall and 2 inches deep. 

"Moonlight on the bay'

     All for today

                                                                                                Take Care

                                                                                                      Tera

 

Bay View

Hallo,

    Calling this one 'Bay View'. This painting started out as a cyanotype print onto watercolor paper with some weeds and grasses I collected on the bay on morning on a walk with my pups and the hubby.

   I then water colored the grasses and glued the paper to a cradled wood panel.

  I then added several layers of encaustic medium. Next step was painting some grass and weeds on with encaustic paint. Lastly, I enhanced the sky and water with pan pastels.

   I framed it with a black float frame. It measures 16.5 inches wide, 23.5 inches tall and 2 inches deep.

   All for today

      Take Care

           Tera

 

Beach grasses

Hallo,

   Well more cyanotypes to show you in the next few days. A few weeks ago the hubby and I took the pups for a morning walk on the bay and I collected a bunch of grasses and weeds from the beach and even found a horseshoe crab shell and I used them to make 3 large cyanotype prints.

   I did the prints on 15 by 22 inch watercolor paper. I even had to order custom made boards and float frames due to the odd size.

   I wanted to leave one of the 3 mostly untouched so with this one all I did was use some blue colored pencils to clarify a bunch of the lines and enhance some shadows here and there. It is glued to a cradled panel and when dry I used a couple layers of cold wax to seal it. The only other thing I did was to add a bit of oil stick to the edges (with blending medium to make it more translucent and to help it dry quicker). 

  I really like how it looks in the float frame.!!

                                                                                  I should be done with the other 2 in this series this weekend sometime so stop on back.

    Take Care

        Tera