Spring Flowers and Stampzetz

Spring is coming here in the UK  and colourful flowers inspire the urge to paint and capture that brightness after all the dull winter days. These examples below are all done by colouring-over with the stylus. A photo image was printed out onto regular copy paper, then glued onto a more rigid card board –…

Masterclass 01 Growing Landscapes

The first Masterclass for Hochanda is coming along on August 12th at 11am. It is called Growing Landscapes and will show the build-up from simple A6 cards through A5 landscape and into more detailed A4 landscape. But exactly how the final piece will look is a mystery until the show itself. Encaustic art is such…

Testing with Hot Air

Sometimes it’s good to test out new tools and we have been looking at a new hot air gun. These are the first 4 test pieces – just to check that the heat and air-flows work and that the gun is stable and reliable. Testing out new stuff is always fun!