Wednesday, August 31, 2011

A day of encaustic

So another class I took at the Create art retreat focused on a totally new medium to me, wax and plaster.  The instruction was provided by Trish Seggebruch and she was a lovely teacher.  She made encaustic look easy and she inspired me with her teaching.  I found upon trying however, that this is not the medium for me. 

I still had fun and played with the materials provided. In turn, I was exposed to some other new art supplies that I now want as well: PanPastels and Shiva paint sticks.  Another technique I used ( in several classes actually) and fell in love with...stencils.  These seem to be making a serious crafty comeback as good old Martha has a giant new selections of stencils in the big box store.

Without further ado, here are three of the five encaustic pieces I worked on. Two of them were just not worth posting on here.  There is something to be said about editing! :)



This little vintage themed one has a few goodies tucked inside the wax.  I also used a lot of transfers in these pieces and this worked pretty well. 




I was proud of myself for stepping out of my usual grungy color palette above.  I think this piece has grown on me a bit.  The purple flowers were added with stencils and the PanPastels.  Those were so much fun, I wish I discovered them earlier in the workshop. I was too busy trying to tame the uncontrollable wax!



This board was one of the ones I layered with plaster to before adding wax.  This made for very interesting texture.  I struggled with "controlling" the wax in any of these projects.  I had embedded my heart in wax (above), but it did not stay.  I turned this into an opportunity and added all the metal staples.  I also dripped resin on the heart.  This was from the overflow of resin for my assemblage pieces I just finished up from another Create class.  I hope to post both of them on here very soon.  They have the most delicious texture, you don't want to miss these.  

I hope you will stop by again soon!

Cheers,

Rhea


5 comments:

  1. I think that blue piece is beautiful!!! It would be pretty framed or maybe even modged podged to a lamp shade, put it in an all white room and see a burst of color.I think its lovely...

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  2. The birdcage piece is my favorite, but the rusty heart calls to me.

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  3. I love my Shivas!!!! I haven't done any painting in a while and encaustic has always interested me,but I haven't given it a go. Probably won't happen for a while now with the babes. I love your plaster base piece-very cool texture. Don't give up just yet!!!

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  4. Each of these pieces are wonderful. They really need to be seen in person. I know they were way out of your box. But they really are fantastic.. Birdcage is my favorite

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  5. Really love the blue color behind the bird cage. The colors behind the bird cage really speak to me. I am all about hearts. Thanks for sharing!
    Belinda

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