Using Cookie Cutter For Encaustic Painting

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. It was the middle of the night again and I had that thought. I wonder what would happen if I went to the kitchen store and bought cookie cutters and try to work them with wax. And so what happens is that I took the clear wax again and I laid down some clear wax on a card, okay? And then I added some background wax. And on top of that, I put a couple of drops where this cookie cutter would be sitting if I held it down like that. Now the trouble is, is that if you use the hot air to blow this wax around, that cookie cutter gets really hot. And so, I will have to see just what we get here by turning on this hot air and trying to blow that wax around just enough to fill up the cookie cutter pattern. And I don't think I got the whole thing that time, but you're getting the idea how the wax moves around. And when you end up, you can take the stylus and outline your work and have a completed picture."