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How to Make Large Encaustic Paintings
Unusual Inserts for Encaustic Wax Paintings
Encaustic Wax Painting Stylus Work
Encaustic Wax Paintings Using Dominoes
Encaustics Using Kleenex
Encaustic Wax Paintings Copying Tips
Encaustic Wax Paintings Collage Tips
Combining Encaustic Wax Paintings with Photos
Encaustic Wax Paintings Embellishments
Creating Trees in Encaustic Wax Paintings
Using Wax Sheets for Encaustic Paintings
Encaustic Wax Painting Air Gun Tips
Encaustic Paintings Using Wooden Boards
Encaustic Wax Paintings Using Griddle
More Options for Encaustic Wax Paintings
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Summary: Working on a pancake griddle during creation of an encaustic wax painting; learn tips tricks and more from expert John Vandebrooke for creating beautiful encaustic wax paintings in this free art lesson on video.
John Vandebrooke was raised in Ashland, Wisconsin and moved to the West Coast in 1961. He tried many different media--including oils, acrylics, jewelry, silk painting, sand blasting...read more
"JOHN VANDEBROOKE: This is John Vandebrooke on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we're going to talk about advanced encaustic painting. Okay, just take a look at working on a pancake griddle again. Here's two images that we can take a look at. On both of them, you'll notice the background has been softened by using Kleenex to dab the wax when it was on the pancake griddle. Now, on one of these on the right, it is drawn a lot with the wax directly in block form on the paper itself. On the other painting, a lot of that--of what I call "Iris'", is those flowers were done with the iron instead of--I took it off the griddle and then worked with an iron to create those flowers. But let's just take a look at how that wax behaves on the griddle. When the paper is hot on a griddle, all you have to do is touch that wax block, you see and you can directly paint with the wax. And again as I said on some of those paintings, we soften the background by dabbing it with Kleenex. I've also been able to get effects by taking some of the wax putting it right on the griddle over here. Maybe sticking something like an old rubbery eraser in it like that and using that to draw with. Another thing that you can use are these soft--they're sold in craft stores to actually make rubber stamps out of them by heating a metal object and pushing it on there until it forms an image. But I've used them again putting some wax, let's say on the griddle, dabbing that in that, creating patterns like that. I also love corks. Corks are great thing to--after you've drank the wine, take the cork and make some images. And you can carve with the knife in the cork, create different effects. So, this just opens up a whole world of possibilities. Another thing that you can do is take your wax and take something like a card and just create images by moving a card on the surface."
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