Showing posts with label encaustic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label encaustic. Show all posts

Monday, August 20, 2012

Making Order out of Chaos
















This past week I have been making jewelry which resulted in all my bead boxes becoming a disaster.  So this is just a little bit of the mess of my reorganizing.  I had piles of colors all over the tables in the house. I worked on organizing for 2 days but now everything is in its place.  Sometimes I can handle only so much disorder. I can get such pleasure of putting things in little piles of color and shape and making order out of chaos.

 

 I found this video on twitter this morning. Its an advert for these silicone tools that look really great. I also liked watching this artist and her philosophy about using the tools. They also have wedges that work well with encaustic painting and would be great for mixed media. I may have to get some of these, yes Dick Blick has them.




















This little guy should be arriving at my doorstep today.  Its a self igniting torch for encaustic painting.  I have been re-watching all the video's from Judy Wise's encaustic painting DVD.  I am looking forward to doing some of the exercises I didn't do while the class was live.  I hope the UPS driver comes early rather than later.  I want to play.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Using Encaustic Wax















This is my set up to do encaustic wax,  I am using a melting pot and a quilting iron, I also used a heat gun. The wax took quite awhile to heat up. This was my first try at this technique.




















The original painting before wax.






















and the painting after wax, the color seems so much richer now.  Oh I love working with wax.




















My collage in process using the magazine pages and nevrDull.



The second phase, it is not really that blue, the color is more subtle.















This closeup is more the color. Now I need to figure out what I will do next. I think I will look at it for a few days and see what emerges.