Scrapbooking With Encaustic Wax Painting

Video Transcript

"When I started with encaustic painting, there was a little scrapbook in store across the street and actually that's--who would actually taught me into giving my first class on painting because everybody there looked at these wax coded papers and they went, "Hey, we want to learn how to do this." So, I tried to think of different ways to show them how to use the wax in their scrapbooking. One method would be just to take all the little scraps that you have when you're painting, cut them up and make other little designs out of them like I did this little kimono piece just from scraps of a little piece of wax that I had been working with and reassemble them into a little painting. I use this same idea in a very large painting I'll show you later. But you could also take your images, cut them up and put designs on paper that you then would--let's say put photographs on and use this just to decorate your paper. Some people have actually cut the wax painting papers up to make stained glass window effects with the cut wax papers. I also took just a regular piece of typing paper and scrunched it all up like this and then opened it up, laid it out like this and took the iron and waxed the top of the wrinkles of the paper and then in all the valleys I put acrylic paint and then poured in some glass beads, those little small, little glass beads that you get in scrapbooking stores and let it harden up and then I would take their big paper punches out of floral paper punches and punch out flowers in different sizes and make 3D floral images out of this paper. It's really kind of a neat idea to work with."