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| What fun we had on Saturday in the encaustic wax workshop...8 students joined me to use a special iron and coloured beeswax..Its completely different to using paints and brushes on canvas! They students did 6 postcard size pictures to start with--just to get used to how the wax worked when it was melted...and we had some stunning results!Above you can see Kirsty and Sandra making a start on their small ones.. |
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| Its the most addictive form of art there is--and Jackie was hooked right away--and says she knows what she wants for Christmas now LOL..I gave everyone the details of where to buy the things needed to do encaustic art at home www.wakeswaxes.co.uk |
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| Sarah enjoyed doing the landscapes best I think! |
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| Kirsty created some lovely pictures..loved this blue landscape.. |
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| Sandra used shades of orange for one of her landscapes.. |
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| Shirley admiring one of her pictures.. |
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| Margaret checking out her lovely picture.. |
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| Chris and Pauline hard at it with their irons! |
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| all sorts of weird and wonderful things appeared in the paintings..faces and little creatures every where! |
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| I think everyone was quite amazed at how quickly the pictures developed--and they dry fast as well--it can take just seconds to do.. |
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| some of Sarah's results.. |
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| Kirtsy's picture looked like a window-complete with curtains and a faraway fairy castle outside! |
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| Just amazing how many different sorts of effects you can get .. |
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| This is one of Pauline's small pictures-- I showed everyone how to use the iron as a hot plate as well--you can get completely different effects! We could see a little piggy and a dog in the middle of this one! |
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| these are some of Margaret's pictures.. |
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| Chris checking his mermaid on his painting...we used some body transfers to add some detail on them-- |
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| Sandra chose a beautiful fairy for hers.. |
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| After doing the small ones we moved onto the big pictures--we used sheets of thin perspex which we framed afterwards.. |
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| Bill keeping an eye on things--he is very good at encaustic art and has sold quite a few of his pictures on the local market! |
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| Sarah's painting is taking on an underwater feel-- |
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| some interesting effects coming on here.....butterfly wings |
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| We could see all sorts in Jackie's picture--palm trees, birds and Ive just spotted a bird in the bottom right of it now! |
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| love these colours! |
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| Sandra's beautiful painting--reminds me of balloons-each one has lots going on in it! |
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| a lot going on in Chris's picture..some lovely foliage effects! |
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| Kirsty's beautiful vibrant picture--love it! |
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| Sarah's finished picture--can you see the whale in bottom left of it--all sorts of underwater things in there! |
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| Pauline's end result--I can see a cat in the top middle! |
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| Wonderful results everyone--will be running another workshop next year..watch out for the date on the website www.paintingmyway.co.uk |
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