Video: Unusual Inserts for Encaustic Wax Paintings

Insert like rub-on transfers you can use in your encaustic wax paintings; learn tips tricks and more from expert John Vandebrooke for creating beautiful encaustic wax paintings in this free art lesson on video.

Video Transcript

Now, we've talked before about using the pancake griddle. Well, that has that technique in here as long as the upper part has the Kleenex dabbing to soften the background, some of the stylus work in the foreground. But there's a couple elements in there I want to talk to you about. I'm not afraid to use different techniques. And if you'll notice the butterflies, for instance, those are not drawn. I've taken some rub-on transfers that you can purchase at any of the craft stores. And what's nice is that when they're rubbed on, you can't see the edge of the print. And all you have to do is take and rub the front side and get a nice, heavy press against the image and that's going to lift right off onto your surface and that's how I did the butterflies in that picture. The other element in there that's a little different is the image that I created with the dragonflies. Here's another interesting idea you can use. You can take a rubber stamp and use a glue stamp instead of an ink stamp and put your rubber stamp image onto your surface. So, you can't even see that. But if you took a powdered--I use an iridescent powder and just tap some of the iridescent powder over that image. And it'll pick up on the glue and then you'd have to rub off the excess. And you have an image in that iridescent powder. Just another nice, little technique to put in a picture that I think is just a little different.

Unusual Inserts for Encaustic Wax Paintings

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