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The T1 Basic online course in Encaustic Art Skills

Enjoy Encaustic Art?
The online T1basic course could be just the thing to help you develop your skills.
Iit's FREE so take a look below


*NOTE:

The course is simple - just work your way through the set of images shown below in your own time and at your own pace. This skill study will help improve your technique and versatility.

The 90 minute Learn the Skills program on Video or DVD clearly demonstrates all the modules that you need to be able to reproduce for this course. The real time demonstrations are designed to help teach you to understand and repeat the techniques effectively, and enjoy the process too!
Michael Bossom working and promoting encasutic art (1998(
Michael Bossom started his work with encaustic at the very beginning of 1987 and has inspired and demonstrated some of the simpler techniques to hundreds of thousands of people world-wide ever since then. A teaching network was first started in Holland in 1992 and since then much has progressed. A couple of years later Michael set up this selection of image modules in a effort to pass on basic skills using a progression of techniques.

These images and the ability to teach them successfully to others laid the foundation of an encaustic art teaching network.
Can you re-create all the images in the T1basic set below?
Of course, this is just the tip of a huge creative iceberg! .

ENCAUSTIC ART WAX BLOCK COLOURS NEEDED FOR THE T1basic COURSE ARE:
STUDY PIECES for the T1basic Online Course
Chaos in the 4 effects At the start of learning there is chaos and an open mind.
Work safely in an ordered environment.
Skill is the development of control and predictability.
Art can be the imaginative use of such skill or the keen perception that may emerge during the creative process, where the participant (artist) identifies, understands, "knows" that the artwork is complete - time to stop.
Chaotic abstract artwork


1.Chaotic abstract where the painter "finds" forms in the wax without preconception.

T1basic Course Notes:

Rhythmic patterned artwork - some control

2.Patterned abstract where strokes are repeated to form rhythmic patterns

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mandala - reflected pattern & structure

3. Structured pattern e.g. Mandala where patterns are reflected like a kaleidoscope

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simplest landscape structure

4. Simplest structure for landscape use No. blue green colour

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the zigzag landscape - iron technique

5. Zig-zag landscape - natural colour & full effect No.23 Olive Green & 14 Yellow Brown

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There are 4 basic horizon shapes to learn ....
Flat encaustic horizon

a) Flat horizon with water rubbed beneath

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Low hills made by the rounded edge of the iron

b) Low hills - caused by the rounded shape of the iron's upper edge

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High Hills - encaustic iron tip in rounded movement

c) High hills made with the tip of the iron in rounded movements

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Peaks - made using the iron's edge in jagged transverse movement

d) Peaks - made using the iron's edge in jagged transverse movement

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Rubbed sky & colour harmony

6. Rubbed sky & added colour harmony into foreground (reflect sky colours)

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full iron painted sky and landscape

7. Full iron painted sky and landscape

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card after printing off to fabric

8a. Fabric print of full A6 landscape

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Wax image printed onto fabric

8b. Fabric print of full A6 landscape

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Doodling with the encaustic stylus for graphic control

9. Stylus scribing tool doodle on a card

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Using the scribing tool

9. Stylus scribing tool doodle on a card

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Indirect wax transfer - pool scene

10a. Indirect wax transfer for stones in water with dragonflies

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Indirect wax transfer - hilltop castle

10b. Indirect wax transfer for a hilltop castle

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fantasy castle pathway

11. Fantasy castles and path using dragged point for horizon - perspective

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fantasy scry - inner worlds

12. Fantasy Scry and scriber.

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combining encautic environments with stamped images

13. Black pen, rubber stamps, silhouettes, etc. - using translucent wax

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Alpine mountains and rubbed lake.

14. Alpine mountains and rubbed lake.

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A5 sized landscape with iron sky, hills, distant trees, water lake,

15. A5 sized landscape with iron sky, hills, distant trees, water lake, foreground.

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END of STUDY PIECES for the T1basic Online Course
FULL PRINTABLE COURSE NOTES ARE HERE

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