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J & M Enterprises Newsletter Fun Easy Art
March 2010
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Dear Encaustic Painter,

A quick newsletter as I am doing this several months ahead before we leave on our trip south.  Last month I was going over the A6 card stock and thought I would give you a few more of those to look at.  So here is one that I used the tin foil once again for the background effect.

        Space Shot

When I sit and do several cards they will begin to have a similar look to them. This is handy if you want to do a mounting with a series.   You can see the same effects as the previous card.

                       floraL

I have done it again.

                      Floral 2

I added another texture to this one. Some Christmas flowers came with a mesh like fabric around them and I decided to see what that would do with the wax and iron. So the finer mesh effect is done with the iron over that fabric on the wax along with the foil effect.

                       antique flowers

New years eve and had to paint a few hours so here is what came out of that session.  First one I called the wishing tree.

                      wiching tree
You can see the foil effect again on midnight rose.

                      abstract


As you can see I am having fun with the foil process. Called this Duet.

                      Duet

Abstract images are a lot of fun for sure.

                      abstract 2

New Years day a few more painted for you to look at and I will wrap up this issue.

       Landscape

This one I used some watercolor for the sky and then waxed over that. A bit of mica gold power on the tree.

       landscape 2

The four trees on the right were done with the edge of the iron.

       landscape 3

This next one has watercolor in the sky before I waxed over it.

      landscape 4

A6 card stock with two layers of images laid down. The first was an abstract that I waxed over and some of the color shows through and then a wax pattern of flowers that also had some Kleenex in areas . An insert of anther image stuck in the wax an then a thin sheet of screen fabric over that was attached with wax. I called it Sisters.

                     sisters

              Doing a series that can hang together..
       trees 1 trees 2 trees 3

                   trees 4
When you do them at one sitting they seem to flow together very gracefully.

Ok my friends that is it for this month. Hope these gave you a few ideas to work with.  I should be home this month and will hopefully have some new ideas for you.


Supplies
You can find all the supplies for this process on my web site on this page.
There are three box sets of wax, Starter, Expanding and Vivid.  These are the Starter colors.

Encaustic Starter Wax Set $21.00



starter wax

If some of you want to make your own wax here is a link to get the how to do it info.
Upcoming Class Schedules
Looking ahead

emerging



I have booked a day class at the Art Works center in Edmonds WA for April 11th and planning on a full day class from 9AM to 5PM with a 45 min break for lunch. Cost is $90.00 for early sign up with all the supplies included.You can register at this address.
Waxingitup.blogspot.com
My blog:
Free Instruction
35 video clips to watch.

To look at the video clips I have on the web simply access them from these links.
Series 1.
Series 2.
Series 3.
Hope they help you and inspire you to give wax a try.
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John Vandebrooke
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