Mixed media quiltie

 

This little quiltie includes a fabric transfer of a vintage image, machine embroidery on a Lutradur scrap; fibers and ribbons, and commercial fabric. 6.5" x 9"

encaustic 5

This one was an exploration embedding black, soft, lacey paper in beeswax for the first layer, followed by floral ribbon. The ribbon reacted to the heat by shriveling into a bird-like form. I then added assorted beads to the melted wax, incised circles and arcs, and added alchol inks and copper oil sticks for color. The substrate is a 5" cradled board.

Copic Markers giveaway

Check out this Stampin Up blog for a giveaway of 36 copic markers

Angie's birthday giveaway

Angie has a birthday giveaway on her blog, Handmade by Lilacanglia

Melissa's Cuttlebug Giveaway

Pop over to Melissa's Creating from the Heart to enter her fabulous giveaway. You can enter until July 15th.

Two more encaustics in the series

Shawna Moore -Encaustic Painter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7fkIKcET14

This is one of the most inspiring videos I've watched. Shawna works on a large painting - combined with a great background song - just mesmerizing!

Beeswax collage

These are my first two forays into encaustic art. I love the smell of melted beeswax - it seems to bring me back to my childhood when i spent time watching my dad process honey from the several hives we had in the yard.

This 8" x 8" collage was created on cradled gessoboard, decorative napkins, wrapping paper, and stickers. I used Shiva oil paint sticks to add additional color.

The button collage is created on 5" square cradled gessoboard. The background is tinted with alcohol inks rubbed into the cooled wax. The vintage buttons are from my collection.

A Sale - something to bring me out of my art block!

What a nice surprise I received today - I sold a piece! I'd taken the three small canvases Three Textured Abstracts linked them together with a repurposed beaded necklace and had it hanging at The Next Picture Show Gallery exhibit of work from our art league, Kishwaukee Valley Art League. Ever since the death of my laptop a few weeks ago I have missed having all my pictures available, but there is hope that I will get them back soon. When I do, I will post the piece.

Maybe I'll work on chakras as my theme - I have several painted canvases that would make good backgrounds. Of course, I cannot show you the backgrounds because the software for my printer/scanner is MIA!

You Are the Throat Chakra

You are outspoken and eloquent. You have no problem making your opinion known. It's likely that you're very verbal and artistic. You are creative in every aspect of your life. You love to communicate with people. You think it's valuable to talk out ideas and issues. You are very honest and straightforward. Speaking the truth is important to you.

What Chakra Are You?

I've got a four-day weekend over the Easter/Passover holiday and i am still blocked with my art, other than a journal that I've painted. Part of my issue is that my laptop died and the folks at Staples did NOT recover my data as they said they did, so I have lost all my documents and photos of my artwork! Hopefully Kyle will do some magic with my hardrive in this next week or so and I can have my digital life back!

I'm not sure where the day has gone, but it has been a relaxing one. We had another little snow storm (after all the previous snow had melted away, teasing us into believing spring was on its way!), so I decided to stay home and inside today. I'm trying to complete the many pieces that I have in various stages of "doneness". I only finished a few small ones, like this ATC-sized stretched canvas from Dick Blick

Gesso and Ink background

This is half of the 12" x 18" background I created inspired by Maggie Grey's book Textile Translations
The base is Timtex, layered with tissue paper and handmade paper, fusible webbing, gesso, inks, and acrylic paint sprays. I haven't added any metallic highlights yet, nor any stitching, as I'm not yet sure what I am going to do with this particular piece. I love the texture though!