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