Basic Images in Encaustic Wax Painting

Video Transcript

"Now, I mentioned with painting with Kleenex that you could wax in the sky first and then do your mountains. So, that's one of the looks that you could get using that method, but I want to show you another way of creating what I call "rocks in a pond" like this, and here I've used another medium. It's like a watercolor wash on top of the rocks just to give you a different look. But, let's see how that's done because if you don't protect the card, you'll end up with a mess at the bottom. So here you take two cards, cover one card up like this. Now, take the Kleenex pad, lay it down. Again, you're not knowing what you're doing here, you got to pant blind, and we're going to guess where we're going to put a rock over here. So, we're just going to push down over here and create a rock like this. Let's see what kind of look we can get here. Hopefully, we've got something working. We'll take a peek. Not bad, that's not too bad, huh? So now, we'll take this protective card off. Be careful for the wax so you don't make a mess, and you come back and you place it up just a little bit higher on this side. And let's make different shape of rock on this side just to give us a little contrast going here. Let's make this one kinda tall and come back this way and see what we get here. Take a peek, not bad. Okay. Now, we've got two rocks floating in the middle of our page. Take your finger and just slide it under the rock this way to get sort of a look of water here and let's do the same over here. Okay. Now, we've got two little images here in the pond, and the next thing you could do is to take your stylus with the pen point and do some very intricate little pieces of grass in the foreground, perhaps put a bird in the sky to finish it off. But this is a nice little layout to use for an art piece and when you use other mediums with it, creates a wonderful effect."