I have been enthralled with encaustics for six or seven years, since I saw my first encaustic painting in a gallery in Ketchum, ID. And since I found out what it was called I have been saying, I want to take an encaustic class... Well, it has taken quite some time, but I finally made it.
I took my camera and had planned on taking many pictures of the process, but only one was taken... once I got going on a piece it took hold of me and I thought of nothing else. This was my first one... at one point there was lots more on here, but I scraped a bunch off and ended up here. I love the bug and the dragon fly stamps.
These are the two pieces I made today. What I learned is I can begin this using white beeswax only and add in colored wax as I feel more confident... that most of your color can come from pastels, collage, and stamping.
While I was in Kentucky last month I picked up three grape leaves the insects had eaten out. I've been saving them in my journal just for this occasion. Now all three are preserved in wax.
I loved the bug pictures.... and they fit so well with the skeletal leaves... In this picture you can begin to see the translucence.
Here is another bug... I played around with adding color to this guy... see where I stamped Be Free... the other picture says Enter Here...I go to work tomorrow, but tomorrow night I have another Art Unraveled class. Maybe I will use my camera more.
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So enjoyed watching your work evolve!
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