Sunrise at Eaton Ranch

Hallo,

  Another painting from my workshop in Wyoming in early sept. This painting combines several of my photos with encaustic wax.

   The base photo was printed onto cardstock and glued to a cradled wood panel - the sunrise with horses in the background. I added a few layers of wax and added details/texture with wax to the background. 

  The photo of the appaloosa was printed onto tissue paper and embedded into the wax.

  I then added a lot of texture to the foreground and added details to the horse.

    Lastly I added the texture in gold to  the bottom inch of the painting(many layers of wax. Added a line of gold foil and then carved in the little horse brand and filled it in with black.

       Painting is available on my Etsy shop. It is 14 W by 11H and 1D. (coupon code 'ARTSOUL30' - for 30 % off all my paintings right now.

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              Have a great day!!!

                      Tera

 

Run for the hills

Hallo,

  Except for the numerous pics, a short and sweet post today. I did this painting the same way as yesterdays post, using another photo from the same are of Wyoming in early sept.\

  Have a great day!!

      Tera

 

Antelope

Hallo,

   Well I am headed to a show this week in Savannah but finished off 2 more paintings to take with me. This first photo is the finished painting and then I start with the basic background and the progression of the painting.

   The painting is encaustic of course. I did several layers of medium to prime the board - this one is 8 by 8 inches. Next I did a basic background for my painting - sky and hills/ground. I used a photo that I took in Wyoming in early September somewhere alone Lone Bear Road/Ttt Ranch Road. I printed it out in color and embedded it into the wax. I usually print the photos in black and white because I use them as an under drawing, so it is completely covered with paint and the color won't show any how - but was trying out my sons color printer.....

I isolate the image and print it out onto tissue paper, when embedded into the wax the paper almost completely disappears, leaving you just the image. That is the third picture.

 I then get out my hot pen with a fine tip and start adding encaustic paint to paint the image and then the background grasses. I enhanced the sky also with brushes and some pan pastels to add some depth and texture. The next several pictures show how the painting progressed from there. 

The antelope alone took a bit over 3 hours to do and the grasses took about 4 or 5 hours....

     All for today - Have another one for you tomorrow.

          Take Care

                  Tera

   

 

Ranchhand

Hallo,

  I finally got back into my studio after my Wyoming adventure, to finish off this last painting from the workshop I took at Eaton Ranch with Clare O'Neill. 

  This was a photo encaustic workshop hosted by Eaton Ranch. We got to see the herd wrangled in from the mountain pastures every morning, could ride every day if we wished (I only rode twice - it had been over 15 years and 2 knee replacements since I had ridden so I was just a 'bit' sore after the second ride.....)

If you ever wanted a 'Dude Ranch' experience, I would highly recommend Eaton Ranch!!! They do it right!!!

And if you want an awesome photo encaustic class then Clare O'Neill is the person to go to!!! I had such a wonderful time my week at the ranch with this class!!! I have enough painting fodder to last me a LONG time!!! I must have taken over 2000 pictures. (And another 8 or 900 during the week I spent at my brothers place near Centennial Wyoming !!)

   Anyhow the first 2 pictures are of the finished painting. The next 2 pictures are the photos I worked from. 

   The background photo was taken somewhere along Lone Bear Road/ Ttt Ranch Road. I printed it out and glued it to my wood panel and then covered it with several layers of encaustic as a base. I worked on the sky first and added some color and texture to the clouds while I was deciding what to add to the picture in the foreground. I had a few good pics of antelope from the same area as the background photo, but the colors were too similar, and the antelope just blended in too much. (Although I will probably try one in the future). 

  I printed out the horse - photo taken at Eaton Ranch - onto tissue paper and embedded that into the encaustic on the painting. The tissue paper sinks into the encaustic wax and pretty much disappears, leaving just your printed image (I did isolate the horse before I printed).

  I did some initial coloring with some wax crayons - which is represented by the last photo, mostly grasses in the foreground. That was all I had time for up in Wyoming.

   Yesterday I got out my hot pens and spent several hours adding color and texture to the hills and trees in the background - to the point where none of the original photo showed any more (I used the photo more as an under drawing to paint over) Last but not least I did a couple more hours work with the hot pen adding in the grasses and a bit of detail and texture to the horse too. Total all hot pen work was about 5 hours' worth, on top of what I had already done.

   All for today - Take Care!!

      Tera