How to Make Encaustic Wax Trading Cards

Video Transcript

"JOHN VANDEBROOKE: This is John Vandebrooke and on behalf of Expert Village, I am inviting you to take a look at our series of intermediate stages of encaustic painting. I don't know whether you've ever heard of Artist Trading Cards or ATC but if you have one, it'll really be worthwhile to go to Google and find out everything you can about this wonderful way to connect with artists all over the world. What they do is that everybody that's involved makes cards that are this size, 2 1/2 inches x 3 1/2 inches and they'll do them in all different kinds of medias not just wax, all different kinds of media, but then they'll trade with each other in groups all over the world. They don't sell them. They just trade them one for one and they create great big huge albums of work from all over the world and it's just a wonderful thing to get involved with. There's also local groups that you can find that they meet together and work together to do this. So, what's nice about this is that when you're doing--whatever art form, especially with wax, let's say that you've done something and you really like a little section of this painting that you've done but you don't really like the rest of it, you can take this size, lay it over your artwork, draw it out and then cut out the section and have your little trading card piece that you can then offer to somebody else around the world. And you can just create a wonderful network in this way."