Anemone garden

Hallo,

  I finished off this driftwood piece for a 3D themed show at my local art cooperative this last weekend. 

  I found the driftwood piece on a morning walk on the bayside a while back. I attached it to the flat wood round with some screws on the underside.

  The first 4 pics are all my doo dads before I painted them. They are all made of paperclay - except a little holey wood piece to the left in the first picture. The paperclay is air dry and holds the encaustic paint very well.

                                                                                                             The next 3 pics are of the front after I painted everything. The anemones in blues and purples, the octopus in greens and the tube coral in orange/pinkish reds with yellow tentacles made from some crochet thread.

     The last 3 pics are of the back side.

     This was such a fun piece to do - I have so many ideas for my collection of driftwood.\

   All for now - Take Care

       Tera

 

Octopuses Garden

Hallo,

  A ton of pics today for a new project I just finished - its taken me several months all together and I really LOVE how it turned out.

   I have had this idea in my head for over 2 years, have had the driftwood piece for almost that long. 

  All the color you see is encaustic paint. I also put a thin layer of encaustic medium over the whole piece of driftwood before I started attaching all the coral and ocean plants - seals the wood and helps to attach all the doodads.

   The octopus, and the tube-shaped green coral were both made with paper clay. The red fan coral and the turquoise coral on the back were all made using a frayed-out sisal rope. All the others were made with rice paper.

   This was my second project of this type but definatly a whole lot bigger than the last one!!! I screwed the driftwood to the oval wood piece with 2 big screws. the bottle I attached with a bit of super glue and some wire. All the other pieces were 'glued' on with HD encaustic (high damar resin formula - a 1 to 1 ratio - which works great as a glue).

   Plans for this piece include 2 shows back to back - one out my local Arts and Design Society and then next month at Artel in Pensacola.

    I can really see this piece in a big entryway on a tall display table and a mirror behind it so you can see both sides at once - that would look really nice!!! Too bad I dont have the room in my house!!!

    All for today - Take Care

           Tera