Designing Dresses

I've been having fun "designing" some dresses. 

These dresses are made using vintage papers and encaustic beeswax.

I used a page from a vintage French book for this dress. The pocket, belt and collar are bits of a vintage map.

This dress painting is also an ornament.

 To create this dress I used a topographic map page from a vintage atlas. This map has such wonderful colors and patterns.

The pink and green colors in this thematic map make a lovely dress.

 All of these mixed media encaustic dress paintings are available for purchase in my shop.

Wedding CAKE

 A "delicious" white wedding cake encaustic mixed media painting.

 First I layered vintage papers, vintage sheet music and pages from vintage books, on to a piece of wood. I then painted clear encaustic beeswax over the papers.

 I then added some colorful dots in blues and greens in between more layers of the clear encaustic.

The white "frosted" encaustic cake has lots of white "butter-cream" swirls and dots creating a fantastic 3D effect. A fun painting for a kitchen, dinning room or bakery.

Friendship is the Answer . . .

Another encaustic mixed media painting using a vintage photo, vintage papers and encaustic beeswax.

I used orange and pink colors in this painting.

I like how the warm sepia color from the dress maker pattern works so well with the pink and orange.