More Bees in the Beeswax, and a Coral Reef Painting….

Encaustic and mixed media on panel 6x6

At first, I wasn’t sure how I was going to use the watercolor drawing I had done for this painting, and then the greens and pinks just sort of happened and now I LOVE IT. I think I’ll be making this one into a necklace to go in my etsy shop.

The bottom part, as usual, is watercolor and it is inspired by a trip my husband and I took with our two best friends to Mexico in 2008. We went on a snorkeling expedition, and Trevor has this underwater camera, he took some fantastic pictures of the reefs, but I forget the name of where we were. It was loads of fun though.

Yesterday, I was out painting with the garage door up, it was such a GORGEOUS day here in SLC, that I just couldn’t bring myself to close the door, even though there were two big bees swarming around me. Well, one met an unfortunate end in the vat of wax medium that was simmering on the tool chest next to me.