Moving to New Site

Hi Everyone!
I am moving this blog to a new website/blog combo. I don't know how long this one will remain up, but there will not be any more posts on it. You can follow me at www.triciadewey.com
 from now on.
Take Care,
Tricia.

New Hot Box Monotypes

I recently ordered and just received my Hot Box from Paula Roland. Of course when it arrived, I had to test it out immediately. What a difference it makes to encaustic work! I played around for just a little while and here are just a couple of quick things done with it. I can't wait until I have more time to see what else it can do.

Encaustic Monotypes

I haven't been very creative lately. My father passed away in March, and was ill for several months prior to that. Since last October, the only art I have done has been digital. I just did not have the time or the inclination to do anything else.

But now I am feeling like I want to try something new, and am learning about Encaustic Monotypes. I have been working with Encaustic Wax for about 2 years and love it, so I am excited about learning this new technique. I bought a DVD by Paula Roland, and am taking her class here in the Dallas area in November.

My first attempts did not come out very well, so I decided to take pictures of them and tweak them in Photoshop, which yielded better results. I glued the brown and blue abstract piece to a board and then put encaustic wax and oil sticks on it. The top piece has just been tweaked in Photoshop. I have not had time yet to see how it prints out.

Easter Cards

These are a couple of whimsical cards for Easter. I made them for my niece and nephew to go along with their Easter baskets. They are 9 and 10 years old.

Today's Image

I got to spend this evening working on this image. I like the brighter colors. These dolls are made of polymer clay, encaustic wax, and fabric. I made these dolls a couple of years ago, and wanted to use them in digital art.

More Digital Work

The first image I worked on today looks like several of the others I have done. I hope I am not in a rut, so I am working on images that are out of my comfort zone a little.

Since I love color, this second one is much more my style. Both images feature art dolls I have made.

Roxie and Angel

2 more pet portraits done digitally with those fab scrapbook elements. One is of Roxie, Lisa's very special Jack Russell Terrier, and Angel, my friend Denise's youngest cat.

For both portraits, I used a third party plugin for Photoshop called Snap Art that lets you turn portraits and other things into paintings. I also used some brushwork to enhance what the plugin could do, and to bring out the pets personalities.