Paper and Hand made books for sale

Each offering is $10 plus postage

Book 1: Front Cover

'Hmm I Wonder'

Hand made book 13.75cm x 19cm

on watercolour paper

Milk Paints, natural pigments, 

watercolour pencils, Xanthorrhoea Resin

inner page

inner page

inner page

Back Cover

Book 2: 

Blue Face

Same size and materials as Book 1

inner page

inner page 

inner page

inner page

Collection of

Mostly seaweed prints

a bundle

Sold

This is a small concertina of bloodroot

8.5 x 37cm

heavily textured

on watercolour paper

seaweed prints plus some xanth on the ends

otherwise as above

small book of sea weed prints

closed 6.75 x 9,75 cm

plus 2 loose pages

Bundle of Concertina Books

Tied up with hand made string

all on watercolour paper

10.5 x 47cm

10 x 99.5cm

10.5 x 87cm

this one has a tear on one of the folds

Let me know if you are interested in anything

x te

Painting with Cold Wax

Cold Wax Medium

This is a wonderful painting medium, a bit like painting with butter

 The safest way is to add your pure gum turpentine or citrus solvent to the wax in a glass jar and leave for a couple of weeks to dissolve. I have not had a great deal of success with this method.Or my preferred method is to heat the wax ( You can use either premade encaustic medium or straight beeswax) and then remove from the heat and add the pure gum turpentine stirring till well mixed and allow to cool. Begin with a 50/50 mix and adjust until you have a mix you like. Remember it can always be thinned by adding more turpentine when cold to make a glazing consistency

For a quick alternative to try but some beeswax based furniture polish

I mix my cold wax medium with dry pigment and a little walnut oil on a glass plate

you could use a white ceramic plate 

This is the beginning of some pieces of cold wax painting 

on watercolour paper covered in traditional gesso

some lovely red oxide to begin

then yellow ochre

indigo blue

I use raw natural indigo powder

This is a painting done entirely with

cold wax medium,

walnut oil,

and natural pigment 

Here it is finished with scratching 

and rubbed with indigo and walnut oil

And second piece before

and after

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

Tide Marks

Tide Marks

all natural mixed media on board

30 x 30cm

$250 plus postage

this is the view I have 

each day on my morning walk 

looking out over the mudflats 

to the sea

I glued down a piece of silk noil

over 2/3rds of the board

and then applied starch paste over most of it

and scratched into it

 milk paint has been applied and then ink

which was washed off

after it had thoroughly dried

I have added wax and dry pigment

This is the piece I entered into the local art prize

I did not win anything

and it is likely I will be bringing it home 

but I am good with that

we are living in a fully furnished apartment

and the art is not to my taste

x te

Quiet times at Chez Shed

Not a lot has been happening down here

in the deep south of

Western Australia

We did go out wood collecting

last weekend

should be cozy for the rest of the winter now

and the weekend before that

I was up in Perth

I attended a very interesting

Egg Tempera workshop

with

Glen Stewart

and this I produced

when I got home

I put it out in my studio

yesterday

and after hearing much

kerfuffling out there last night

today I found a few extra marks

teeth marks!!!

courtesy of Ratus ratus

Not the collaboration I had in mind

but still interesting.

Up to Perth again on Sunday

will be there for a whole week this time

Dan is doing a 4 day course and

I shall be amusing myself

Beginnings

starch paste on traditional gesso applied to and open weave cloth on masonite

Over the last couple of days I have been putting together

some painting substrates

Starch paste on plaster applied to and open weave cloth on masonite

and I though some of you might be interested in my process

just plaster

so here we go

plaster and starch paste on heesian applied to pine

I am hoping to get some underneath texture to pick up colour as I apply paint

but being a natural girl I don't use such things as gel/acrylic medium

so i gots to find otherways

plaster and on heesian applied to pine

plaster likes to pop right off pine

well it likes to wait a couple of months and suprise

you one day

so to try and combat that i have applied

an open weave cloth a light one on the smaller pieces

and hessian/jute on the bigger ones

this should give it something to grab onto

plaster and on heesian applied to pine

the starch paste is to give some idea of a horizon line

so I will be vaguely referencing landscape

paint will be added tomorrow

on the toipic of my process

I have been asked by Dorie to teach in the Netherlands

next year May/June 2013

and as you can imagine that is an awfully long way

so I am hoping there might be a few more places that

would be interested in learning my particular brand of madness

And with a lovely mention by the fabulous India

how could I possibly go wrong

please contact me or leave a comment

if you would like to host me.

x te