Category: Work from Courses and Workshops

I’ve been doing some more acrylic painting.  I wanted to try an autumn scene, using a pice of Virginia creeper: I did an online course with Laly Mille on painting roses which I loved. This painting is on canvas and I used cut out images of roses, acrylic paint, alcohol inks, black ink, tissue paper.

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.

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.

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...