The Muse .... She has returned!

My long suffering friend has returned! My Muse. Oh, I have been truly lost without her and have just drifted along with no real ideas or aim regarding my encaustics. This is really unusual for me but now I hope to be all geared up again.

At least with all those Christmas preparations over and done with I now have more time to devote to creating again. What really helped was that I was given a hot air gun with variable heat settings as a Christmas present. This would make hot air work so much more easy to do rather than fight with my hair dryer all the time when the hot air and wax had lives of their own!

Anyway, my first creation for quite some time has now been completed and I have listed it on http://onawhimsey.artfire.com

It is entitled The Eyes Have It. I love flowers and I guess I often look right into their centres and imagine I can see into their souls through their eyes. Using several layers of colours I moved the hot air gun over the box canvas. To add detail I used another small iron attached to the hot stylus to create the flower aspect. The final detail of the eyes was added with the hot stylus. The grasses around the painting which were also taken around the sides were added with my encaustic iron. So, there you have it. A touch of fantasy with some thought thrown in for good measure!

The last weekend before Christmas

I guess we will all now be in a flurry of activity as we work through our list of last minute things to do before the BIG day!  Did you remember to get Auntie Flo's present, you know the one that always seems to slip through the net?  Those elusive stocking fillers? And so it goes on.

Oh no!  Now it's snowing!!  Well not here in UK where we live in the south east  where it is just damp and dull.   However, many of my internet friends over in the US are experiencing a lot of snow.  Children love it but the adults just know that after all the digging they just want to sit by the fire with a mug of something lovely and hot!

Encaustics are on hold at the moment.  Too much to do what with shopping, cooking, organising of everything so the creative juices will have to take second place for a few days.  That is the joy of this time of year.  Once the main celebrations are over you can then relax and allow the creative muse to take over again.  I wonder what she will be creating?  Rather an exciting thought!