Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists

Step-by-Step Encaustic Painting
Keep your first project simple. For this demonstration I painted on a small
wooden box with deep sides, making it easy to handle. There are only three
colors, which are applied in thin layers to keep the paint from getting too
muddy from over-fusing. A simple grayscale digital photo printed twice on
regular office paper provides a focal point for the more abstract textures and
marks around it.

Materials

• wood panel
  R&F beeswax medium


• R&F powdered beeswax


• R&F paints; Alizarin Crimson.


• Chromium Oxide, Azure Blue
  images for collage


• cheap bristle brushes

metal palette knife

pointed metal object

for etching

travel iron

• griddle


• electric frying pan


• heat gun

1

Cover the support with a layer of plain

beeswax.

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2

Fuse the bees wax into the wood with a

heat gun.