a sunny/rainy Saturday here in the Okanagan today! One moment it's fine, and then the wet stuff comes down again. At least it's not white stuff, like they had in Alberta...;-)

I pottered about in the studio, getting all my supplies ready for the workshops I'm taking after the Encaustic Conference in Montserrat. But I did switch on the iron as well and made a fun little image which would be a good project for a birthday or thank you card:

It's on 6x6" white painting card, which I coated with some clear wax. Then I embedded the sunflower (torn from a paper napkin) with more wax and floated some golden yellow wax over it.
With a petal-shaped cauteria on the stylus I created a border with dark green.
In the middle of the flower I added specks of colour, which I enhanced with the gold powder, but you can hardly see it:


Yesterday I had started a bigger panel, embedded another of my bamboo sumi-e drawings.
I added a bit of texture and colour, but am not quite sure if I should scrape most off again...
Your feedback will be appreciated...;-))


Two more days....
Thea

P.S. If you have joined recently: you can see the reports of the previous days on my blog.