Using Wax Sheets for Encaustic Paintings

Video Transcript

"JOHN VANDEBROOKE: This is John Vandebrooke on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we're going to talk about advanced encaustic painting. Let's take a look at this painting that incorporates some of the things we talked about so far. For instance, you can see the fact that I have put Kleenex again into the wax and painted around the wax with some of that iridescent paint, used some of the round stylus points in here. But there's actually another product down here I wanted you to see. And that's these sections that have raised wax areas here and these are called wax sheets. These wax sheets come in different sizes, different dimensions and I think craft people use these to decorate candles. I think that's one of the purposes of these. But I found that I like to put these into the wax paintings because it adds some different dimension and it's just-oh let's say if I'm working on something, I might take a wax stick like this to stick them in place so they don't move around while I am trying to do something with them. And a lot of times, I'll just take a tool and melt it through and make a pattern on top of the sheet. If you took and used an iron on top, you can find out that it doesn't take much before the whole sheet just sort of melts away and so, I don't want that look. I really want this dimensional look that I get when it's got a raised surface off the painting."