snow & the details

there was a crooked house

i've been organizing my photo files

and came across these.............

taken in the fall on my way to georgian bay

every year i expect to see that it has finally fallen

this time i actually hopped the fence

(ignoring the warnings)

and got a few close up shots
i wish i could go inside

encaustic class

have i ever mentioned that

i love texture

lot and lots of texture

the one thing about working in encaustic is

that i can create just that


today i wish i had more than three hours in class

playing with texture

i first photo (top left)

is of my encaustic painting from last week

in photoshop i desaturated the colour (top right)

the bottom two have photo filters on them

to see what the texture would do
i opened a photo of a tree added the b/w texture on top
and after trying on all the blending modes
i settled on exclusion


with a bit a script and a grunge frame from shadowhouse
blending modes set to darken and linear burn
and there you have it

you've got mail

with a little "help" from molly

i packaged up and sent out my packages

to the owoh winners

(one to germany, california, the yukon and niagara)

keep you eye out for the postman coming soon

enjoy

and the winners are........................

it's been fun the past few weeks

being apart of OWOH

thanks to everyone for visiting my blog,

taking the time to leave such wonderful comments

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the winners!!!!!

kristen from twinkle, twinkle

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birgit from swapping howdies

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slucy from creative sky photography

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and

kim from letting in the light

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a special thank you to all my new followers

and some of my new favorite blogs

jenny from a simpler life

spencer from bellamere cottage

jo-ann from jdmstudios

wonderous strange designs

donna from visiting beyond borders

lucy's dabblings

elena from more then you can shake a stick at...

bockel24

karla from day dream studio

deb's vintage soul

encaustic class

toady's class was spent creating backgrounds

above i used some the the dye cuts from my friend lu

several shapes and sizes

i used burnt umber to highlite the texture and shapes

while i was waiting for the paint to dry

i worked on another board

layers of clear wax to create texture and

several different colours of oil paint in between
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taking it one step further

when i got home i used the photo in ps and

desaturated the colour and added the poster edge filter

i will play around with this one

adding it to several photos to see what will happen

happy valentines day

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein,

Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"

one of my mini encaustic painting i made for valentines

digital journal magic

as the final week of my marie's online class comes to an end

i had a chance to combine my newly learned lessons

with my vision circle class

it's a work in progress

it represents what i see in my future

every picture is a reminder of what i love

and the statement is what i have learned about myself

i am a self healer

through my creativity

i've always said that my art is my meditation, my therapy

and it has always been comforting to be able to express myself
thanks leanne for you guidance and marie for the tools to express it

encaustic class

today's class was spent experimenting

my friend lu gave me some die cuts(above)

the metal heated quickly and then went easily into the wax

(below)
i added white oil paint in the groves and removed the extra

for another project i used this stencil

layers of teal and brown wax and then copper leaf

after catching up on my blog "hoppin'" for owoh

i st0pped by shadowhouse creations

there where a lot of new tutorials and free downloads

which i managed to at least try a few on

above, four of the textured overlays

early morning

as the days get longer

i seem to wake up earlier

the view from my window this morning was gorgeous

the sky was changing so fast

in the matter of minutes it went through

every shade of blue and red

only 45 days 'til spring!!!

snow day!!!

after 2 days of hearing about the storm of the century

i woke up to a normal ( for canada) snowfall

schools closed, the streets were quite,

the news says 10 cm ( that's only 4 inches)

not much going on so i decided to take a look for myself

6 inches with a drift............

beanie wasn't liking it!!!!

since my encaustic class was canceled

i caught up on some paper work

playing on the computer

and watching groundhog day

btw, phil did not see his shadow today

so it means an early spring!!!!!