Winter

View from my Front Door in Albany

Friday June 1st

Officially the 1st day of winter

Here in the Deep South of Western Australia

Though cunningly we started a day early.

View from my Back Door in Albany

But as it is friday

which means we once more pack the car

and go home.

Luckily this weekend will be a long one.

Three whole days

Looking forward to that one.

x te

Jane Davies

Jane Davies blog  Collage Journeys 

is one of my most favourite places to visit.

Always such a sense of fun and adventure.

Where trying to let go and see what happens is

a regular occurrence.

Lots of videos

and best of all

visits form chickens!!!!!!!!!

What more could you ask for?

Check it out

you will love it.

x te

Studio Play

Home for the weekend

So fired up the hot wax

and began to play

This is a concertina book that has been on the go for a while now

It is corugated cardboard

covered in plaster bandage

Then plaster of paris was added

Several layers of paint

a layer of xanthorrhoea resin

And today i added encaustic medium

and rubbed in dry pigment

slowly it is getting to a place I like

This is a sample card of indigo powder

in encaustic medium

some have a little titanium white

and some a little yellow ochre

Indigo powder in cold wax medium over

a natural finishing joint compound

on fabric

and two little encaustic paintings

plaster on encasutiboard

indigo and titanium white

both as encaustic paint

and dry pigment

These are of course more samples

for the workshop at teh Natural Dye Symposium

But now it is time to start the prep work

for wood fired pizzas

yum

x te