 Ideas To Try,
I just have to keep trying new ways to work with wax. I always hope that my bent on exploring new methods catches on with my students. It all started with Michael Bossoms Project Book. This launched me into thinking out of the box, so it is a good read and I always include it in my full kit I have on the catalog page. Never stop with those wonderful ideas, but keep your mind open for new direction.
Below is one of Michael Bossoms ideas that I just love to work with. It has such a Sumi quality to it when done in this way. You first have to take two sheets of Kleenex and then keep melting and wiping the hot wax into the pad with several overlapping colors. Brown, Black and Green is a good combination. Below #23,#14 and #18 were used. (If the tissue has stuck to the underlying paper because the wax
has cooled down you just need to gently iron over the tissue to warm
and remelt the colors, then peel it off the surface before it cools
again. ) You apply the cooled pad over your work surface and began to push the wax through the Kleenex with the iron. All this is done without seeing your end result. Can't see what your doing so you can't make a mistake. If that bothers you just make the pad smaller and create a collection of small rocks in a pile like below. Just have fun discovering what happens. You get a look that you can't get any other way. Then when the wax is still warm ( or if too cool just heat the under surface pad with your iron and replace your card over that to rewarm the wax ) take you finger and begin to smudge the wax for different blending effects. That is how the water is formed below.
You can also make very distinctive mountains with this process or put a large rock in the foreground of one of your pictures. Once you try this you will want to make a whole collection. Some with background skies with wax or with washes of watercolor. Remember it is fun to mix media with wax.
TIP:
Living Dragonflies, not parachuting spiders!
Take care to make the wings of your dragonflies fine and sharp.
Here are some quick clues :
do not to have too much wax in the drawing tip
make a spot of the metallic colour on your card
FLICK the tip out from the spot to form a pointed line
repeat to get all the wing lines
ideal wing form is like the hands at ten and two on a clock
use different colour for the body - dark over light backing
make the body in the same way as the wing lines
one spot above the center of the wings
then one slightly curved flick to indicate life & movement
Parachuting spiders have droopy wings and straight fat bodies,
so look out for them!
Here is another look you can achieve with this method.
Fantasy Castles.
Here is an example where you put in a waxed sky first.
How about a watercolor wash over waxed rocks.
Time for you to give it a go!
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