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.

    www.translucentfirefly.etsy.com

              Have a great day!!!

                      Tera

 

Bay Beauty

Hallo,

   Still trying to catch up ion everything around here. We just got back from spending some time with my Grandbabies (and their parents :).

  In the last month and a half, I have been out of town 3 weeks of that time frame.... now I get to try and get caught up, get Christmas taken care of and wait for Grand #3 to arrive next week.

   This is one of the paintings I did at my Eaton Ranch workshop the beginning of sept. 

  I painted the background with encaustic. The horse is a photo I too that was printed onto tissue paper and then embedded into the wax. I then painted texture and added details with more encaustic. This gentleman posed so perfectly for me!!!

  I added this painting to my Etsy shop this evening. Look for him tomorrow as I publish my Christmas sale (30% off my entire shop).

   Have a great evening!!!

         Tera

 

Appaloosa

Hallo,

  I thought you might be getting tired of baskets so.....

   First part of sept. I took a photo encaustic class at Eaton's Ranch in north central Wyoming.

  Best of two worlds for me - art and horses. We got to ride almost every day and then pop over to the studio for class.

  This painting uses 3 of my photos. The horseshoe background was printed on cardstock and glued to the wood panel. I then added several layers of encaustic for textures and to tone the background down a bit.

    The next 2 photos of the horse and the skull and antlers were isolated and printed onto tissue paper and then embedded into the wax. I then added more encaustic to accent and add more elements.

    I have always been a big fan of appaloosa horses - lots of color and patterns.

     I finished off a total of 4 paintings in the weeklong class so more to come.

             Take Care

                Tera

 

Bees in the flower beds

Hallo,

  Another in my 'Bees' series finished off this weekend. This painting is 11 by 14 inches. 

  I started this painting with a cyanotype print and mounted it to a cradled panel. I then painted it with encaustic - the flowers I used pan pastels on.

  The bees were taken from photos and printed onto tissue paper to use as an under drawing and then I painted them with encaustic using a fine tip hot pen.

  I am debating putting this one in a float frame but for now the sides are painted black.

   Have a great week!!!

      Tera

 

Bee Buzz II to VI

Hallo,

  Finished off a few paintings in the studio today, including these 10 by 10 inch hexagon panels.

   These paintings all started off as cyanotype prints  which I mounted to the cradled panel. I then painted them with encaustic wax and used a bit of pan pastels also.

  There are 6 in this little series now with some bigger - regular shaped panels yet to come.

   Take Care

       Tera

 

Bright fall

Hallo,

  A quick post this am before I head off to that work thing.

  Tried something a bit different here - 2 things actually and the first you really can't see anymore.

  First, I tried a wood glue burn - I drew the tree with wood glue and some spot in the grasses too and then burned them with the torch. I saw this technique on Utube......I then colored it all with pan pastels per the video, but I really didn't like how it looked.

  I then decided to paint it with encaustic - background is with brushes and then all the tree, leaves and grasses are done with the hot pen and encaustic. Gave me a whole new appreciation for the Artists who use pointillism!!!!!

   All for today - Take Care!!

        Tera

 

Winter Blues

Hallo,

  A second cyanotype with encaustic painting today. I did this one pretty much the same as my last post. Since the colored pencil trees didnt show up as well as I would have liked, this time I painted the trees in the background with encaustic to make them show up better. Now I wonder if they dont overshadow the white and blue cyanotype trees.....

  I have 2 more in this series to finished off, so maybe I can find a happy middle ground...

   All for today - Take Care

           Tera

 

Forest Blues

Hallo,

   Another double printed cyanotype project for you today. The first picture is the cyanotype after I bleached it back a bit.

  I then used some stencils of trees to make tree masks and cover up parts of the print with the masks - trying not only to arrange the trees nice but to 'save' some of the prettier parts of the print - and did another exposure.

  The second picture is after the second exposure with the tree masks.

  I then took the same stencils and used them to make trees in the background with colored pencils. (next time I will use lighter colors as they didn't show up as well as I envisioned after adding encaustic).

  Fourth picture - I added several layers of encaustic (the print is mounted on a cradled wood panel - print was done on watercolor paper) and then added some trees in the foreground.

      Lastly I added snow - 5th picture. And the last 4 pics is after I framed the painting in a black float frame

   I had fun with this one - have 3 others in the works. Two of them already had the trees colored sort of the same as this one and a couple layers of wax on them, just waiting finishing. The last one I still have to add trees in the background with pencils so I am going to try and color then lighter so they might show up a bit more.

   All for today - hope you are having a great day!!!

     Tera

  

 

Encaustic and Cyanotype mini's

 Hallo,

  I finished off a few projects in the studio today. I had some wood slices that I wanted to experiment with and these are what I came up with. They started out as one of my cyanotypes that I bleached back and double printed. The lasty photo is the cyanotype after I bleached it - second to last photo is after I reprinted it using leaves as a mask to keep the prettier portions.

   I then cut out parts of the final double print and glued it to the wood slice.

                                                                                                             All I did after that was add a few layers of wax - debated adding some color with pan pastels but I liked them as they are, so maybe the next batch.

   All for today, Take Care

      Tera

'Winter Garden'

Hallo,

  I have a cyanotype encaustic mixed media painting for you today - that's a mouthful eh??

  This painting is 12W by 24H. I started with a base of encaustic medium on a cradled wood panel and then added a couple layers of white encaustic paint.

  I had done several cyanotypes onto tea bag paper which is thin enough to embed into the wax easily, but the paper is strong enough to survive the cyanotype rinsing unlike alot of thinner papers.

  I embedded the tea bag cyanotype in several layers with encaustic medium in between.

  Next I added some dried weeds of the same type that were used to make the cyanotype print to start with. I embedded them into the top layer of the wax and added some light layers of the wax over the top to seal while keeping the textures.

  Next, I went in with white encaustic paint and added 'snow' and used a bit of a stencil in the top corners. I added a bit of gold oil stick to accent the stencil and the edges just ever so slightly.

   I really like how this one turned out!! It will go to a blizzard themed show later this week.

      All for today - Take Care

          Tera