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Summary: How to use a pancake griddle to heat-up your surface for encaustic painting and how it affects the texture; 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 and on behalf of Expert Village, I am inviting you to take a look at our series of intermediate stages of encaustic painting. This is an example of painting with a pancake griddle. Now, all the background was done with Kleenex, just dabbing the hot wax as it was heated on a pancake griddle. The paper was actually heated on the pancake griddle with the wax on top, and then the tree, which I call this picture, "Fallen," the tree was done with an old school rubber eraser, you know, the old pink kind, dipped in wax and then just smeared across the page like that to make the tree, and a little bit of stylus working to do the bushes in the background. Working with a pancake griddle is just a lot of fun. So, what you can do is you can add wax to your surface of your paper with the iron, just to get some wax on there, and then just lay it down on the pancake griddle and see how it warms up right away, see how it melts. So now that it's melted, you could work with this wax a lot of different ways. You could take little pieces of cardboard and squiggle around and move the wax. You could take erasers and move it around. And then Kleenex, you can just dab the background like this and soften the look of the wax just like that to get a real soft background look. You could have some wax over here melted or you could come over and dip into the wax, come back and stamp, see how it stamps and picks up the wax again over here. And--so, you can just work this wax in a hot format. You can even take the bars of wax and just paint with the wax this way; just touching the wax directly to the hot paper. And you can just have a wonderful time working with pancake griddles in this method."
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