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Chrissy D
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Posts: 1053
Location: Queensland
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 Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:33 am Post subject: Encaustic Painting |
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Well its not really contemporary because it has been around for centuries, but it isn't oils either.
I have just done a Encaustic painting class at Uni...
1. Crush chalk pastel for pigment
2. Melt beewaxs
3. add pigment to wax
4. do painting (etched into at end to define detail)
5. end result: Boat by the Bridge
It is an interesting technique. Hard to achieve smoothness, great for texture and building up layers. Have to work really quickly. Hard to get detail. Fun. Dangerous. |
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sunfire
Joined: 01 Mar 2008
Posts: 1430
Location: Toodyay
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| Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject: Re - Encaustic Painting |
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That looks really good, I have looked at books on this from time to time & thought it looked interesting, perhaps one day I might have a go.
Nice work.  |
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thecatsgrin
Joined: 18 Apr 2009
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Location: Gippsland
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| Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject: Re - Encaustic Painting |
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Hi There!!
That looks fun!!
I have been curious about encaustic painting for a while, I never knew what it was, I had been envisioning some sort of art making that involved caustic soda  or draino....
And... today I was just browsing about and found an interesting sort of page that may be of some interest to you.
http://garyreef.ning.com/group/encausticart
It turns out that i have been doing something similar in principle , but using the medium to sculpt (via drip and brush) onto various surfaces ( candles are the most fun so far) but i used oil pastel to colour the wax.
i think i will give it another go!!
Thanks for posting the pics, it has been great!! |
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