Description
Encaustic Art – Basics Book & DVD saver offer
Buy the book and DVD together to save £5
The Encaustic Art BASICS book and DVD were created alongside one another ot act as complimentary aids to your understanding and successful learning of all the basics of using wax colours with an iron and stylus. By getting both the book and DVD you have the option to watch the live action and still have a book page open in front of you to remind you of all the vital steps as you work.
THE BOOK
A fantastic introduction to working with the iron and wax block colours onto card – Encaustic Art THE ORIGINAL. Ideal for complete beginners and those who have already done some of the basic encaustic art work. Lots of creative ideas and developing techniques with hundreds of step by step photo modules. Easy to read, easy to follow, easy to learn. And if you want to see these numerous techniques being demonstrated on film why not get the accompanying DVD twin set which will give you more than 4 hours of live video action (see below).
Read, understand, watch learn, become more skilled and more capable of evolving your own unique creations with at least some greater control.
FULL COLOUR 80 page book 297mm (11.75″) x 210mm(8.5″)
Michael Bossom on Encaustic Art
- Starting : What you need
- Layout of work area
- First go
- Understanding colour
- Two colour mix (harmonic)
- Some pattern types
- Multicolour wax application
- Creating borders
- Iron hotplate mode
- Iron-hotplate ideas
- Marquetry cards
- Marquetry cards evolving
- Creative cards unfolding
- Aperture cards and circular cuts
- Die-cutting for cards
- Die-cutting creativity
- Landscape structure
- First landscape
- Landscape Faults
- Full iron landscape
- The four horizon shapes
- Printing wax onto fabric
- Fabric work examples
- Tissue work with wax
- Tissue work ideas
- Wax and Doilies (doyleys)
- Rubber stamping
- Polymer stamping (clear)
- Encaustic stamping ideas
- Fantasy castles in wax
- Fantasy visions
- Fantasy imaginations and ideas
- Stylus for graphics
- Colouring-over beginnings
- Developing colouring-over
- Colouring-over evolutions
- Looking ahead
- Final thoughts
- Companion DVD twin disk set
THE DVD
Encaustic Art – Basics DVD Twin Set
A great DVD on Encaustic Art that is created to help beginners succeed, to help those already working with the iron to progress and to inspire creative enjoyment and satisfaction in anyone interested in melting wax colours to create artistic results of some type. You will see numerous techniques being demonstrated with more than 4 hours of live video action. Watch, understand & learn with easy to repeat sections of content. Each set of techniques and methods builds toward a strong basis of capability and creative potential with iron and wax.
The video on these DVDs sows all below plus more.
DISK 1
- Prepare to begin
- First go and colours
- Patterns and borders
- Apertures and die-cuts
- Marquetry cads
- Mini hotplatte
DISK 2
- Landscape
- Fabric print
- Tissue work
- Stylus
- Colour-over
- Stamping
- Fantasy
