Wax Art Methods
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The first few minutes of doing wax art will hook you. Wax art can be done in two different ways. The style I prefer is to work with hot tools. The older method is where you heat up wax in small tins and apply many coats of the wax with a brush. Then you can carve into the wax and pour different colors into those hollowed out areas. The top layer is then scrapped off to reveal the patterns. This is just not my cup of tea, but by all means give that method a try. You can also try that on a smaller scale by dipping a small brush into some wax melted on your iron and then dabbing it on your painting. The Fayum mysterious portrait paintings were done with this dabbing method.
I am fascinated with the hot tools loaded with liquid wax which are used to paint
on different surfaces. Small movements of the iron create patterns that begin to
assemble into realistic images as the different patterns are mastered. I have students up and running on their own in 3 short hours of teaching. I am always delighted in what they produce and the smiles on their faces lets me know that they are too.
I find myself thinking of new and different ways to experiment with wax art to get different effects. I find things in kitchen store, such as spatulas and cookie cutters which I use as tools. Hardware stores are no different. The eye just reaches out to touch different objects to see if they can be used in this process. I have even pushed wax through dryer sheets to create a different effect.
You can apply a lot of wax onto two ply of Kleenex until you have loaded it
with several colors. Like black overlapped with dark green and
brown . Now place this face down on a card and use the hot iron to transfer the wax to the card. You will see a wonderful pattern that makes great rocks. With care you can center them in the card and create wax art with quite a wonderful Sumi-like looking painting by adding a bit of tall grass and perhaps dragon flies overhead.
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Below is a collection of 4 x 6 cards framed together to create a scene as another way to show off your small card size pictures.
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