OK, this is it!
Day 1 of my month-long painting project: painting a 36" painting every day.

It got off to a rather difficult start, for I had to attend an almost 5 hour (!) Strata meeting, so I could not get to my waxes until 5 PM. But what I had expected happened: of course I could not do just one small painting - I kept trying out more stuff as the iron was hot anyhow...;-)

For the first day I decided to go with a very familiar subject: bamboo.

This was my inspiration piece:
One of my old Japanese sumi-e drawings, embedded in wax.

I did three different images, one on white card, one on cream and one on black, using the heat-resistant sponges on the upturned iron.

You can view the basic tutorial.



Here are the May 1 paintings:

On white painting card, 6x6".
You can see a very faint ghost image in the background where I wiped out the first image.














This one is on the cream-coloured card (6x6") and the strokes are getting more confident!








The last one is on a 4x9" black card. I scanned it, but it is not a great image; the real thing is much nicer!














All in all it took me about one hour.

Talk to you tomorrow,

all best,
Thea