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Fun Easy Art
February 2010
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Dear Encaustic Painter,
The small A6 card size is such a great way to paint some fast images and also to practice different ideas for larger paintings. Here is a selection that I just did with some comments on different ideas. All done with the iron this first landscape is quite simple but works.
Another landscape, but this time I used some mica watercolor paint and put in the yellow sky first and then waxed over that to see the color through the wax.
Another image that was 95% just the iron and a few small trees in the distance done with the stylus. It is fun to experiment with a lot of different hills, mountain and mesas.
By now you know how I like to experiment so here was one that first I took some colored inks and put down in random fashion. Then I took the air gun and blew the ink around that reminded me of a tree. So I went with that and started applying wax on top of that to develop this tree idea. Liked the way it turned out and that got me pouring some more inks.
You can see the colored ink area of the bright pink with some black ink on top of that blown with the air gun then wax on top of that. Starting to like this process.
Here I have not only the ink and the mica paint underneath but after I finished I began to run in Mica gold power into the wax that gives it a sheen in some areas.
What I wanted to point out on this one is that after I did a background with wax I took a piece of aluminum foil and crinkled it up and then flatten it out and had some silver wax put on with the iron. I then turned that over and put it down on my image and put the iron on to heat the foil and transfer the pattern onto the wax. Then I finished it up with the leaf and floral pattern. This pattern I quite liked and I began to use again.
This one started out with an ink blown area but I did not care for it and began to wax over it so you could not see the ink. I used the tinfoil again at the bottom to create those patterns. Again I have rubbed the mica power into the floral pattern and it shows gold in the picture but not the way it glows in the light.
Here is a combination of first wax on the card stock. Then a one ply layer of Kleenex sunk into the wax leaving tooth to pick up some mica paint. Then I put down some metallic wax in copper and silver using the foil again on the sliver. Then I used the stylus to put in the leaf and floral patterns and finished it up by rubbing the gold mica power into some of the leaf patterns. This has a nice texture that the Kleenex give to the overall look.
I have a few more examples so will post those as well.
This one you can see the mica power rubbed into the tree branches.
This next one has the background pattern made with the tinfoil process.
The same for the one below.
OK, I think that is enough for this month. Get out those tools and have some fun for yourself.
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