sticky fingers and a not so great paint fume buzz. that's how we rang in the new year. last weekend we did a wedding show here in tacoma and decided to redo our old booth a couple days beforehand. thus we did not get to go out and celebrate with friends on new years eve. instead we sanded, melted, painted, glued, taped and basically made a huge giant mess working away and staying up until sunrise. in the end it was worth the effort, working on the new booth was a breath of fresh air that we both needed. next weekend we will be up at the seattle wedding show showcasing our beeswax collage art. i decided to get a head start on the pieces and displayed a few last weekend at the tacoma show. last year i focused on larger pieces with lots of detail work (you can check out a few here). this year i am heading in a different direction with simple small pieces hanging in cluster formations. i am excited to see how they all come together this week. i just got a big box of wood panels today, so now i can complete the clusters. it appears as if this is going to be another wonderful waxy week.
jon's new years project was to make us a sign/camera out of a cardboard box, pretty cool huh?
(i have a feeling the next cardboard project is a slide guitar).
i had to display this clay camera that jon made this summer. not only is it beautiful but it can also function as a pinhole camera. you can check out more of jon's pottery over on his website and i've written about it over here. the bowl next to the camera is also a jon almeda original. i am a big fan of his porcelain coral series. most of these pieces never leave the house because i love them a little too much.
i was excited about how this cluster of three small beeswax photos from erin and greg wedding turned out. i am planning on adding two more pieces to this row now that more panels have finally arrived! the photographs are printed on tissue paper and then covered in a mixture of beeswax and resin. i am loving these tiny little wood panels which are 4×4 inches and 2 inches deep.
a couple more images on tissue with beeswax over the top. these two are mounted on 5×7 panels.
if you are planning on attending the seattle wedding show next weekend, please stop by our booth. you can find us on the 400 row, we will be at booth # 423. come say hello and check out our new beeswax photo clusters. see you soon!