Gifts and a Sneak Peak

In the recent past 

I had a birthday

and I was most happy 

to receive more gifts

in mail yesterday

(I do love a good birthday month)

A wonderful selection of goodies from my bestie

Naomi Stevenson

and a surprise inclusion

of some wonderful fabric 

form the ever delightful

Marion

from 

Beautiful Silks

and these are some details

of an oil and wax painting

which is my entry 

into this years

Hinchinbrook Art Awards

which will open on

Friday August 8th 2014

After that date I shall

put up the whole piece

x te

2 New Paintings

Blue Window

Oil and Wax

on paper

21 x 21 cm

available on Etsy

Yellow Window Red Frame

Oil and Wax

on Paper

21 x 20.5 cm

also available

on Etsy

I had so much fun painting these

I have a few smaller ones in works

plus the large ones which are on board

I think I shall play here for a while

x te

6 Tiny Books in a Bundle

6 Tiny Books

each one

6 x 7.5 cm

Each book has a 

watercolour paper cover

a dyed teabag

and a centre page

of print making paper

They have been 

dyed

stained

waxed

and drawn on

each is 

a tiny little

treasue

this one has a butterfly wing

this a leaf print

a tiny piece of shell

blue

2 dragons

scratches

circles

the cover is naturally dyed

silk organza

and wool prefelt

hand stitched

and it all wraps up in a nice little bundle

with handmade silk string

finished with a bead and 

2 small cowrie shells

this is for sale in my Etsy shop

here

And now it is 

SOLD

x te

Bumbling Along

Finished

Small art works 

Hot and cold wax

10 x 10 cm

These are for sale 

This is what the oil painted piece from the last 

post looks like now that it has had a few 

layers of cold wax applied 

Still more to do

This is a piece that all cold wax

both of these are 

50 x 50 cm

More work here as well

and these are the two 

oil on paper

from the previous post 

now also sporting

some cold wax

Cold wax is so much easier for me to play with

up here in the north

The only issue is that 

it takes a t least 24 hours

 between coats

sometimes 48

But that does leave me time

to do other things

Like read books

ahh Bliss

x te