Encaustic Book

Front Cover

Recently I was commissioned to make

a book with Encaustic Covers

to be used as a Wedding Photo Album

Back Cover

I have used imagery depicting 2 seeds

planted in the soil

on the front cover they are freshly

planted side by side

and ont he back they have started to grow.

It has an open decorative binding on the spine

and naturally dyed silk on the inside covers

there are 40 pages of beatiful

watercolour paper

with spacers

It was a lot of fun to make

and the feedback

overwhelmingly positive.

x te

Hot Wax Great Southern

I have started a new blog

Hot Wax Great Southern

to promote

the Residency

Exhibtion

and

Three Day Encaustic Retreat

which will all be shared with

Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch

and Julia Sutton

Next Year

x te

Loving the Weekend Work

Samples

Playing with meths and pigment/natural resin

I had such a great weekend

Saturday the weather was glorious

got out into the vegie garden

and got the weeding done

and then in the afternoon went down to beach 

for a little rock climbing

But the studio was the best fun of all 

Started by playing with pouring pigment/natural resin in meths

this is dry gesso which I have wet

indigo, lac, xanthorrhoea and ink

I could have left it like this but no

I put another layer of gesso over the top

and then worked inot it while it was wet

the same here but only using indigo, ink and xanthorrhoea

and the end result

before

after

before

after

the detail tells you why

I love this technique so much

Next weekend I will apply wax

and make some marks

such fun

x te

Composition Class

abstract landscape 1

Still busy doing an online workshop

with Jane Davies

abstarct landscape 2

I am having a lot of fun

cruciform 1

an I am learning heaps

cruciform 2

But don't let my dubious outcomes deter you

x te

Weekend Work

These first two pieces 20 x 20cm

are the end result of the second picture in my last post

I am so loving the Xanthorrhoea resin

and have now extended this to using indigo, cutch and lac

more colours to come 

This beautiful piece is the result of spilling the xanth resin

and then just working into it

Both pieces finished with encaustic

'Dancing Fish'  20 x 20cm

Encaustic, fish scales and indigo oil paint

Such Fun 

WIPs 30 x 30cm

Indigo milk paint and xnathorrhoea resin

and pigments on traditional gesso

This one waits for wax

Working with the cruciform shape

Materials as above

More to come

+ Wax

The beginning of an abstract landscape

Wax will happen

and I am thinking maybe something

black and linear in the foreground

And an underpainting

who knows what might happen here

Next weekend when I get back in the studio.

x te

2 Important Blog Posts

I would like to bring your attention to these 2 blog posts which I feel are very important.
Firstly over here at Frogpondsrock talking about the crap in skin care products that is polluting the marine environment. I am so glad I do not use any commercial of commercially produced products.

And secondly at O Eco Textiles where they are talking about the lies and manipulation coming out of chemical manufacturers to sell you products that are making you seriously sick.

Thats why I think natural and as close to the original product as possible is best.

And I will say I most certainly don't trust trees made into toilet paper, Normal pesticide ridden cotton made into tampons, or bamboo made into soft fabric. Come on who are they trying to kid they have to use serious doses of chemicals to make these things. EEEwwwww.

x te

In the Studio

Playing with Native Resin and Traditional Gesso

The beginning of some new pieces

Indigo, Native Resin and Cutch on Traditional Gesso

On the beautiful cradled boards Dan made for me

I will put up photos next week of what these now look like

with more layers and wax

background under layer

But what is occupying much of my time

is the online workshop 

the Keys to Dymanic Composition

I am currently in the middle of

over at

Composition with Single element

Jane Davies

Such a lot of fun

And yes it is all natural

x te