Encaustic Workshop - Day 3

All I can say is - I am learning so much. Again, like yesterday, a few snap shots.

Mono Print Encaustic Watercolor Resist. Who can resist painting, printing and water color? I can't. Today I made several of these.

Suzanne Gibbs, 2012. Encaustic and water color on paper. Detail.

Suzanne Gibbs, 2012. Encaustic and watercolor on paper. 

 

Above is an encaustic print - the face - with a set of water colors ready to add more color to the encaustic mono-print. Also known as monotype.

Above you can see the hands of Daniella Woolf as she demonstrates a reductive use of encaustic pigment on the pallet. She is scraping away some of the color, then she'll make the print.

This is the encaustic mono print being washed with color. The wax areas resist the watercolor creating beautiful effects.

I love this little tool. It is a bamboo burnisher. Daniella covered it in aluminum foil so that the wax that might stick to it can be tossed into the trash and the burnisher can be recovered and re-used. Ingenious! I should say, the burnisher is used to create the encaustic mono prints. 

A good morning greeting - a massive amount of paint sticks

Ok so I own about 6 of these. They are oil paint sticks made by R&F paints. They cost a fortune and are worth every penny because the color is so rich. I have used them to draw on my oil paintings. Today we used them to create line etched into encaustic.

R&F Rocks!

Demonstration (above) of using a mini roller to embed drywall mesh into the encaustic surface, along with other types of scratching and mark-making in the wax. Each mark is then loaded with pigment (below).

pigment loading

Wipe of the excess pigment and - Voila!

Suzanne Gibbs, 2012. Three smooth boards of at least 7 layers of wax and ready for more.

Suzanne Gibbs, 2012. Encaustic additive method.

With encaustic paints an artist can add an unlimited number of layers to create texture - this was so much fun for me. Paint on top of paint on top of paint.

What the heck are these little centipede-like creatures you might ask? They are bits of wax removed from a piece I made.

Suzanne Gibbs, 2012. Detail - reductive encaustic.

I worked on my lap gauging out hundreds of little pieces of wax to make a reductive patterned piece.

Suzanne Gibbs, 2012. Detail.

 Oh yes, more demonstrations. This time books arts. A very brief snap shot.

Cutting out a section.

Filling the cut-out with molten wax. Any tiny little item could have been dropped into the molten wax, if desired.

The wax once it is dry. Tape is removed, and other embellishments can then be created.

Suzanne Gibbs, 2012. A few good days of work.

Suzanne Gibbs, 2012. A piece still in progress.

Tomorrow will be Day 4. Thanks for reading.