Realistic Pictures in Encaustic Painting

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"You know, it's not going to be long before you're going to want to make a realistic painting after you play with abstracts for a while. So, all you have to do is just add some color onto your iron, and you know, don't think about it too much; I mean, some people worry over the colors and here, I just have a lot of fun grabbing different colors and seeing what happens when I put that back onto the page to see what kind of sky I get. Oh, I might add a little blue in over here. Okay, let's see what we get. I'm just going to pull that across the card and try to see what kind of a sky I can create with this combination of colors. Not bad, you know? And very simple, it's not something you have to worry about a lot when you're doing, like pre-thinking. Now, you're just going to want to add a little landscape under that. So, add a little green onto the front of your iron, like that. And take some brown and put that on what I'd call the upper edge of the iron. When you turn the iron over, that will be the upper edge and that will be the top of your hills. So, create a figure, a lazy figure-eight pattern going off the card and--starting off the card and going off the card the other way, and having it make a lazy figure eight pattern coming down, keeping the iron horizontal to your work. And here we go, starting off the page, going over and off, and back, and over and off, and back and we'll keep this going down the card and add a little bit more wax in here. Oops! Let's get that off. Add a little bit more wax, so to get some landscape effects in the foreground, and you end up with a simplistic looking little landscape that you can then begin to add a lot of details in with your stylus tool, although you could put some grasses in just even with the edge of the iron if you wanted to but the stylus works really good for adding those details in."