New Year, New Art Projects

Wow! It has been a long time since I have had time to do any art!

I tore a tendon in my elbow, and have not been able to use my dominant hand, so no art. Plus with the holidays, it gets fairly busy at our house.

I am taking a little break from Encaustics right now. I am working on some new beads, and made a necklace with some of them. I am taking a bracelet class from my friend Lisa in March, and wanted to have some beads ready before class.

It does not show in the pictures well, but these beads are very luminous. They have a matte finish, but can be polished as well. I prefer a matte finish, so I left them alone.

Fall Encaustics

It has really been a long time since I have done any artwork! I spent the past two weekends working on a few fossil pieces, and trying out some new inks I just bought. Here are a couple of the pieces I finished up yesterday.

The lavendar one is probably my favorite, and both are done with the new copic ink refills on the clay pieces.

Sea Lily Earth Globe

Here is another "Ancient Earth Orb". This one is on a 5" diameter ball, encaustic wax, decorative paper, polymer clay and freshwater pearls.

Finding a base to bake the clay on in this size is next to impossible, so from now on I may be limited to the 4, 6 & 8 inch diameter balls. Since I really like the 5 inch size, I may try to find something that will work.

Ancient Earth Orbs

Here is the new project I was talking about. I wanted to add Polymer Clay fossil replicas and Encaustic in a new way, and came up with "Ancient Earth Orbs". They are much
harder to do in this round shape, but I do like the results.

These three are the first ones I have completed, with more in the works.


The smaller pink orb is 4" in diameter, and the other two are 6" diameter orbs.

New Green Trilobite & Sea Lily

I finished these pieces last weekend during an "Art Day" with a friend of mine. I used a scrap paper towel with green inks and paint for the background, then applied encaustic medium over the top.

I also have a new fossil replica that I used for the main trilobite in the middle of the large green piece. For the small Sea Lily I used a graphic image incorporated into the wax.

I also have a new project in mind (with fossils of course) that I will post as soon as I have a working prototype.

Silver Fossils

I did manage to finish this one today. So far, I think this one might be one of my favorites. It is encaustic wax, imagery, polymer clay, freshwater pearls, alcohol ink and paint. It measures 6 x 6 x 2, and includes some of my new fossil trilobite replicas.

Summer Creations

I have not had much time this summer to work on the "Fossil Series", but have managed in the last couple of months to get these pieces done. All of them are done with some new fossil replicas I ordered and made molds from, and I am having fun with the new fossils, most of them trilobites.

The first piece measures 6 x 12 x 2, the smaller pink one is 5 x 5 x 2, and the purple/rust one is 6 x 6 x 2. Hopefully by the end of the day, I will have another piece done and posted.