Gaia Arts

Monday, December 6, 2010

Nursery

Here is what we've got so far:

I've made a curtain, a cover for a ugly wire rack and a moon/bird mobile. The blue art on the wall was made from some awesome ladies.

From Laura

Friday, October 22, 2010

It's a boy!

No not me, this is for a friend.

From Laura

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Baby Pillow

I know that babies don't really need/can't use pillows, but... I love this new pillow!

From Laura

Friday, October 8, 2010

Train tracks

There's a show I'm going to be entering in a nearby town. It's all pictures of the town. Here's the encaustic I created for this upcoming show. It's also the largest one I've created, 12x16.

From Laura

Thursday, September 30, 2010

New Baby Items

It only seems appropriate that I begin to make more baby items. All onesies have handsewn elements to add style and reinforcement to appliques.

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Monday, September 13, 2010

NH Landscape

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Here's a new encaustic landscape.

Solar for Haiti

I just finished working with my wonderful friend Madeline designing a fundraising poster for her efforts. Please check out Solar for Haiti on Facebook.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

This painting was done as a wedding gift for friends. The first painting is their wedding date, the second the bird from their invite and the third an abstract the symbolized their wedding day together away from the rest of the world. I am really proud of this work and I am extremely happy with the framing as well.

From Laura

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Three of my encaustics are being sold at http://www.telegramhome.com/. I hope they sell!

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Sunday, February 21, 2010

J-Tree

I think that I'm finally getting the hang of the encaustics. I'm really happy with this one.

From Laura

Sunday, January 17, 2010

New Encaustic

Here's my newest encaustic:

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Monday, December 14, 2009

Encaustic Work

I finally started using some of my new encaustic paints.

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This is a really bad picture but it's kind of cool in person.

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My favorite one, I made the paper as well.

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Encaustic works really well with the black abstracts.

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Sock Monkey

Lots of friends have been having kids and I didn't feel like making another blanket. I thought I would try something new. Here is the result:

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Sewing

I've been sewing a lot lately. So far I've made kitchen towels, headbands, a large yoga type bag and a baby blanket. Here are pictures of a few. I'm thinking about trying to sell some hand-made goods, so tell me what you think!

From Laura

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

North Conway Mug

This summer while staying at the Mahoney's I decided to make a painting of their home as a thank-you. If I had more time I might have spent a bit more on it. I am not super happy with the perspective but I think it worked out well. I hope they like it!

Painting in the Rain:

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The real painting looks a lot brighter, for some reason the photo turned out dull.

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A friend of mine is a member of the mug club at the Moat Mountain Brewery. He asked me to paint White Horse, Cathedral and Mount Washington, with the Moats in the background. Here is what I did:

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Saturday, July 25, 2009

3 Day Summer Course

I took a 3-day summer course at UNH a few weeks ago. It was really cool to work with a model, which I had not done in years. The first day of the course was sculpting from the model using an armature. I've never done this before and we only had one day to do it. Here are some photos of my sculpture from start to finish:

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The next day was painting. I learned a new technique, which was really difficult for me so I'm going to keep that painting to myself (maybe I'll put it up later). The third day was great, drawing from the model. I really felt like I did well the last day. Here are some drawings, starting with short poses ending with longer ones (the longest here is maybe 30-40 minutes.).