Becca Francis Art & Photography

Snow White Backdrop

Well, here is the picture of the finished backdrop for the play.  I am not totally satisfied with it but I figured I would post it anyway because I put a LOT of work into it.

Backdrop for Play

Currently working on a backdrop for a school play.  I did this last year and loved it, I was so happy they asked me again.  I have less than a month to get it painted.  I will post the progress as I go along.

Here is one of the sample designs that I sent (my favorite).  Needs some cleaning up once I get going, but I think it would turn out nice.

My Favorite Things

Did the drawing this morning, I’m not sure if this is done or not but I dig it.  I’m thinking of calling it “My Favorite Things” and drawing stuff all over it (butterflies, flowers, paw print, necklace…).  Going to let it sit for a bit with just the camera and maybe come back to it later.

Quick Update

I do well for a while and post lots of stuff then I let it laps.  Sorry about that.  I fell into jewelry making and I fell hard.  Totally obsessed with it actually.  I have used my photos and been making pendants.  They are turning out pretty nice if I do say so myself.  I will have to get a few posted on here.  Might be setting up a store on Etsy (will keep you posted on that). 

There is something new I would like to post for your viewing pleasure…

This my crow drawing done as an image transfer on Plexi glass.  I didn’t think this was going to turn out because when I first started taking the paper off, the paint was coming off the plexi.  I left it alone for a week or so then went back to it, took my time, and was able to get it to turn out.  Hooray for that and I will try to post some of my jewelry on here later.

What I’m up to…

I attempted to do that butterfly transfer on glass and it was a failure.  The acrylic paint pulls off the glass when you try to remove the excess paper from the transfer image.  So, now I know.

I moved on to this baby…

I was going to do this as am image transfer then decided to draw it on instead.  It is not finished yet, I want to make the tree a little “meatier”.  But, it is close and I am very much in love with it.  May be one that goes up in my house, unless someone wants to make an offer…  =o)

Lessons

Another caulk image transfer.  Tried this on a watercolor board, please note the bottom right side.  If you try to rub the paper off and press too hard, the acrylic will start to come off the panel.  Good to know.  Also when I look at this it looks like all the paper is off, but when I brought the photo of it up in photoshop you can clearly see how much paper I missed.  Wierd.

I do like the image though.  I may try this one again on a wood panel because I think those work better for an image transfer than the watercolor board.

Playing with India Ink

Playing with India Ink & water.  Going to do an image transfer on this of a bird in a cage or some text.  Not sure yet.

Seeing Red

Painted this a couple days ago.  Was going to do a layer of purple and black over the top and scrap some of the paint off with a putty knife so the red showed through but I really like this as it is and am thinking of just doing an image transfer on it.  Going to let it set for a little bit and think about it before I go one way or the other.

Distractions

I was trying to clean my studio over the weekend to make room to work on the 3 panels for my cousin and this canvas was peaking out from behind some crap I had in front of it. I was head over heels in love with this background when I did it (over a year ago) but, in the grand tradition of Becca’s art, I was too afraid to go further. I FINALLY put the branch on this baby Sunday. I REALLY like it! I’m going to do one maybe two more branches then call it finished. Thoughts… Feelings… Please feel free to leave comments.

Wood Panel Test

One of my cousins has commissioned me to do a set of paintings for him. His only request was that they have purple & black in them. Yeah, force me to do paintings with purple & black. =o)

I was just going to do standard gallery wrapped canvases but I bought this wood panel today and I’m really rather liking it. This is not finished yet. It is probably going to get some designs laid over it. Not that I don’t like it right now but I have lots of paintings that I start like this and there is supposed to be much more to them but I get too scared that I will screw them up, so I just stop. I shall not stop on this one! There will be more to come.