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| Dry pastels and oil pastels on corrugated cardboard. |
I had a fun evening experimenting with encaustics (hot wax) with an avid high school art student who also wanted to experiment. We fired up the pancake griddle, filled the mini muffin tins with assorted colors, and experimented with mixed media and encaustic wax. Among the experiments, we used soft (dry) pastels on corrugated cardboard with oil pastels topped with encaustics. We also used dry pastels on tissue paper that we then embedded on a board using layers of clear wax. There was no goal; simply to experiment with some of the ideas I've ready about in books on how to incorporate encaustics into mixed media art.
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| Dry pastels on tissue paper topped with clear wax. |
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| The palette: wax in mini muffin tins. |
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| Adding hot wax selectively with a paint brush to board covered with dry & oil pastels. |
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| Using a hot (travel) iron to spread the previously applied encaustic wax. |
