Or maybe not, given the present weather, but it seemed like it at the time, with flowers blooming all through the garden. The cover is from a notebook I bought made in Thailand. The cover is made from leaves (banana?) stretched over board.
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More pages in the Nature Journal
I spent the first two weeks of December in Malaysia where the temperatures were in the 30s C. Meanwhile, back home it snowed and I came back to this at the end of the month: Super moon on the first day of January: Thick snow for the end of February:
Layers of Light landscape and more encaustic wax
This is a landscape using encaustic wax – a layer of mixed paper bits, followed by pieces of fabric, mark-making, inks and white wax. I love the result. Working in a grid, using the butterfly as symbol. Again, a mixture of papers, paint, inks, mark-making and journaling.
Layers of light – plaster and encaustic wax
This is my first attempt at using encaustic wax. It is not at all easy to get a smooth finish and hopefully I will improve. Using plant material that was not quite flat might not have been such a good idea either. However, I quite like the compositions. More experimentation needed.
Layers of Light
I’ve begun a new online workshop with Lady Mille entitled “Layers of Light” and this triptych is my first completed project. Each panel is on a canvas box which I covered with a layer of neutral toned papers, then layers of paint. I took a photograph out of our window when snow had fallen and...