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J & M Enterprises Newsletter Fun Easy Art
May 2010
A quick breather before our next trip- Off to NY City and DC and south to Virginia
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John
Dear Encaustic Painter,


I am going to start writing the newsletter early  as I think I will be busy this month teaching and getting ready for the Letters
Of Love workshop the end of April and first of May. I will have three class session of two hours each one after the other and
 all the classes are full already.Since this is my first year of teaching at this event I need to prepare
for such a large group, they are all Calligraphers and
I will want to consider that planning the class work. To start this months newsletter I will just showcase a few things I worked on this week . I began by continuing to work on the griddle so these next images will reflect that.
 
First up is a rocky vista in a southwest theme. The sky was done with the help of the hot air gun after the wax was put down on the hot paper. Next I just began to draw with the wax on the hot paper. In the foreground I used the painting pad method to create the rocks and then the stylus and the iron was used to finish. I rubbed a bit of oil paint into the foreground for some highlight.

8 1/4 x 11 3/4 is the A4 paper size for these examples.
       
  Vista

Another example done the same way. The foreground had a
bit of Kleenex tamping then stylus and iron work to finish.

   Approaching rain

Here the sky is hot air and the white mountains drawn on the hot paper direct and then the black mountains below
were done with the tissue pad method with stylus work on
top of them. A bid of oil paint rubbed in for highlights.

trees 4
   
Flower

 This was a fun combination. I found another piece of felt
that was embossed and did the background pattern with that after I soaked it in wax. Then the stamp for the other pattern and iron and stylus work around the edges. The flower in the middle was done with the hot air gun after wax was appliedon the griddle. 

I did quite a few pattern pieces that I am not sure exactly
what I am going to do with them. I don't think they will
end of as framed pieces but have to let my brain cook a bit
more on the end result. I used the felt from last month as
well as the one from above. I also had a mesh plastic piece I used to coat with wax and lay over the paper on the griddle to release the grid pattern. A bit of stylus and iron work to complete. If nothing else a fun experiment.

   pattern

 patterns

Back to some A 6 size pieces. I did all of these this afternoon and mixed in a few different methods in a few of them. Can you spot some of those?

         

             

     

   

                 trees 4

That is going to do it for this month. Hope you enjoyed these and it gets you itching to bring out your tools and wax.  

Oh well I did some more and will add to the mix with one more of the larger A4 size. The high lights of yellow are where I rubbed in Some oil paint.



That is it, I promise.  Have fun painting.  
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



Looks open for now.

Waxingitup.blogspot.com
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Free Instruction
35 video clips to watch.

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

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Sincerely,
 
John Vandebrooke
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