29 Faces # 24,25,26,27

Mixed Media vintage overpainting excersize

with beeswax toplayer

More encaustics - Hot Chick and Flower

A charcoal transfer on a plain beeswax "panel" in the middle with layered encaustic "frame" around. In French colours and with a funky fowl line sketch.

Also my favorite treeflower, the Pohutukawa, many yummie encaustic layers and even some embedded gold leaf ! Love da Wax !

 

Growing encaustic flowers

This is a work in progress and a look at my encaustic set up in the studio

On the table is a Pohutukawa flower on a wooden panel

You all know I am very fond of textures and different tactile experiences, this hot wax game is beautiful to work with, I am in love !

Encaustic addiction

Blue Bird - Encaustic

I am slowly getting addicted to the melting wax, hehe. Here I used Encaustics transferring and scratching out a line drawing

Ice Bird of Blue - another encaustic

Ice Bird of Blue Mixed Media Encaustic

detail

detail

So here I have tried to play some with many thin clear layers alternating with detailed layers white and blue. "intarsia" it's called I believe. I had a certain look in my head, I am not too sure if I achieved what I wanted, because of course you (at least I) have not that much control over painting with beeswax, but it was a very good excersize for sure.

Grow - an encaustic painting

Grow - Encaustic on wood

♥ Lovingwax with Jane DesRosier - join at the Trodden Path ♥

Loving Wax

Just as the title indicates, I LOVE {bees}wax / encaustics, hmmmmmmm ;) I am experimenting, learning, waiting on more supplies to come, impatient, trying, melting, making ... I have been using beeswax as a topcoat for quite some time now, so I know how to move wax around and what it does, and what it can hold. I never did much with coloured wax though and these first trials are surely not all good yet and I'd probably be better of waiting for my coloured encaustics to arrive really. But I'll share with you what I have been fooling around with so far. A journal page with a transfer on one side and a matiching tree in melted oilcrayons on the other side, a little Pippi portrait of course {she grew up a bit, her pigtails are down this time} and a sample chart if you will for me to have as a reference using different pigments with the waxmedium. More to come so stay tuned, and check out Jane DeRosier's the Trodden Path's Loving Wax !