Hidden Wabbit, flower refuge

Hallo,

  Another Cyanotype and encaustic mixed media painting for you. First photo is the cyanotype as I was beginning to color with pencils. 4th photo is when I was finished with the colored pencil. I mounted it onto a cradled wood panel. I then added several layers of encaustic medium.

  For the 3D flowers I got out some paper clay and made up the flower petals and once they were dry I glued them together with a long piece of twine to use as stems. I painted them with encaustic paint and then embedded them into the wax on top of my painting.

  I finished off the edges with some blue pan pastels and then some gold oil stick and gold encaustic paint over that just for a bit of bling. There are some touches of gold on the 3D flower petals too.

  Framed in a black float frame - that was a challenge to do with the 3D stuff sticking out in front!!!

   All for today - Take Care

         Tera

 

Wittle Bwown Wabbit

Hallo,

    We have a 3D show coming up at our local art cooperative and this is going to be one of my entries.

    I started with a photo of mine of the rabbit - isolated him, turned him into a negative and printed him onto a transparency. I then used the transparency to make the cyanotype print.

   I layed down the transparency of my rabbit onto cyanotype paper and then layered some weeds over the top of the transparency sheet and printed them in the sun for about 10 minutes.

   Once the cyanotype was rinsed and dried, I used colored pencils to color my rabbit. I then glued the paper to a cradled wood panel.

   Next, I got out my paper clay and made up some clay weeds to look like the real weeds I used and added them to the top. I then added several layers of encaustic medium (beeswax with natural tree resin).

                                                                                     I used pan pastels to color the weeds on the base  and then used encaustic paint (encaustic medium with pigments added) to paint the clay weeds.

    The painting is 8 by 10 inches and will be framed in a black float frame.

      All for today -- Take Care

                Tera