Recycled wood art

 

This post is from April, 2015 and is entitled:

Recycled wood art

 Today I'm doing a bit of recycling in my basement.

In my basement studio, I got out my dedicated beeswax crock pot, plugged it in, then waited.   While I waited, I did a load of laundry and hung it on the line.  Yes, it takes that long for this crock pot to melt the beeswax.

I'm not sure why I have no step-out photos of this, because I had a ton of time.  Instead, I concentrated on this project and forgot to take photos.  The piece of wood on the left began with a few leaves I had pressed from the previous year.  I adhered the leaves and flowers using the beeswax.  I then adhered some of my gifted glittery tissue paper also applying it using beeswax.

The wood on the right was left over from when I attempted to repair a strip of wood outside my back patio.  I had already painted it, and it was screaming for me to not throw it away.  Instead, I adhered three leaves that I had pressed the previous autumn.  I used beeswax in lieu of glue.

I was hoping for a better view of this one,

and a better view of the two together.

Even though I adore my camera, there is only so much I can do

in the poor lighting I must contend with in the basement studio.  Although these are probably not finished pieces, they are started and that was all the time I could spend on this project today.  

Thanks as usual for joining me on this journey.  Your comments mean the world to me.

 

Today is Day 15 (tax day in the USA) of 22 in which I brought back a post where I altered two pieces of scrap wood using beeswax to adhere pressed leaves and flowers.