Looking for a way to improve your landscapes in encaustic art? Well, that’s exactly what this online course is designed to help you do. It’s not so much about you being forced into creating unfamiliar landscapes, although 6 images are used to explain how development of landscape can be found. The real intention in this…
DetailsAnother couple of hours on Hochanda TV to show a few things about our Encaustic Art: First hour with Alex on Hochanda. Landscape with the iron. Compact Hotplate beginnings. Stylus tip flowers Our second hour, this time with Nicky on Hochanda. Polymer mermaid stamp image Landscape with the iron. Iron foxgloe Compact Hotplate background, &…
DetailsEncaustic Art has been growing and evolving in the iron and wax block form for more than 30 years. So many things have been created and have evolved during that span of time. And latest in this ongoing unfolding are our online courses for learning Encaustic Art. The video format is long gone. Now DVD’s…
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Online courses are the modern way to learn. Streaming video is becoming the normal way of viewing many things. So we are delighted to let you know that a new online learning community has been created to bring Encaustic Art courses onto your screens. For years we have put teaching videos onto Youtube and more…
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Another 2 hours on Hochanda TV and it was time to look at the iron and stylus basics, at some foxgloves, at the compact hotplate and some of those tools. Rubber comb, sponges, rubber brushes, polymer stamps …. Here are the links to those shows and some of the images which were made. You can…
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In the last post I mentioned about printing simple blocks using a Gel Press with thin acrylic paints. This introduction led me onto exploring a little more deeply how prints might be enhanced using the Stylus and encaustic art wax block colours. The printed acrylic paints can be over-printed many times, but their colour value…
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Time for a creative change, so Michael Bossom and Barbara Gray decided to do a skill swap on Hochanda – live action in one another’s creative specialities. It turned into a lot of fun, not always plain sailing, but always interesting and fun. Below are the links to the 2 programs. I worked forward and…
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Back on Hochanda with something a bit different. This time Michael is working together with Barbara Gray of Clarity Stamps – the lady who invented clear stamping (and much more). They will be looking together at various things including Gel Press (simple printing with acrylic paints) and Encaustic Art from Starter Set to hotplate. It…
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First Show with the lovely Kathryn Sturrock who was presenting with Encaustic Art for the first time. It is always good to have a new person looking and asking about our wax melting art form. Second Show hour of the day with Dave Bradford who has helped us present Encaustic Art for many years now.…
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A little more time on the screens to share our love of the Encaustic Arts.