Sunday, February 08, 2009

Encaustic Art - WOW!!!!!






















We've just had a volunteer's craft day at Scrappies. Irene and Sheila taught us some of the basic techniques of encaustic painting. This is where you use melted wax to make a image. We used small irons and stylus's to make some wonderful images. I've just updated the Scrappies web site with lots of photos from the workshop. You can find them by clicking here. The pictures above are some of my experiments. I was very pleased with them and would like to have another go at it sometime in the future. I went out on the web and found the site of the guys who developed the technique. They have lots of examples in their galleries - take a look!