Sweet Pea Stamps: Beautifull

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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Tera presents 'Beautiful' by Holly Durr

Hallo, As with so many of my Sweet Pea images - when I first pull it out to color for the first time I often have too many ideas of how to color it that I have to do at least 2 versions. This image is by Holly Durr called 'Beautiful' and I colored her with prismacolor and polychrome pencils. I did both versions up for a 'reading card ' deck that I am doing for someone I know - backing the main image to gold shimmery cardstock and edging both layers with gold metallic pen. Then I added some gold corner stickers and touches of glitter on her wings. All for today - Take Care Tera

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I am about to adventure into the life of Retirement and am looking forward to significantly more time in the studio, playing with my Grandkids and traveling now and then with the hubby. I have spent 41 years as an RN - mostly in Critical Care. I picked up painting and more formal art again when my kids went from High School into college. I have always done some form of art, even in the busy years of Career, Mom, Military wife - mostly in the crafty forms(sewing, rubber stamping, its a long list...) Now I mainly paint with encaustic wax. Encaustic is an ancient art form from Greece and Egypt that uses beeswax, natural tree resin and pigments. Encaustic is painted while melted in thin layers and every layer is fused to those below with heat( I mostly use a torch). True to my 'normal' self I have 3 or 4 other hobbies that keep me busy too , and you will be seeing(and have been) those here too.