I enjoy working with artists who have some experience with encaustic, we can go right into advanced techniques.
Michelle from North Carolina, visited San Miguel for the first time and spent 3 days with me covering everything she wanted to try. Michelle has been working with encaustic for 5 years and wanted to expand the options in this wonderful medium. She was not interested in making finished paintings, she just wanted to experiment, take notes and learn as much as she possible could.
After the third day she said that her head was full of information and she would be able to incorporate these new techniques when she gets back to her own studio.
We covered; creating a glass smooth surface with no air bubbles, incising and filling with encaustic, using stencils , shellac glue burn, transfers, oil glazes, cold wax and oil, drawing on very thin rice paper and applying as an overlay.
Here are some of her experiments:
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| Michelle's first time working with cold wax and oil |
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| Her first successful transfer |
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| incising through several layers of clear encaustic |
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| more scraping |
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| cold wax and olf |
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| Another successful transfer |
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| lots of techniques in this one |
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| rice paper drawing, India ink, stylus, blue incising,and drawing with a wax pencil |
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| stencil, dry brush layering |
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| transfer, oil glaze, shellac burn |
