January 13th was out first day of Hochanda TV in 2017. An early start at 8am and then another hour at 2pm. We covered a lot of basic beginners approaches and showed a few other things to stimulate and encourage those already active in encaustic art.
Both programs are available to watch online for a few days on these links :
8am: https://www.hochanda.com/Cinemas/13185/2017-01-13-08/08/Encaustic-Wax-Art
2pm: https://www.hochanda.com/Cinemas/13191/2017-01-13-14/14/Encaustic-Wax-Art
Below are some of the images we created during those 2 hours ….
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- Shona: Basic effects for landscape – white wax on black card
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- Shona: 4 basic effects using Blue Green = total beginners try this!
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- Shona: Making a messy card into a new landscape (nothing wasted).
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- Shona: Simple landscape with perspective enhanced by details.
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- Shona: Working into a random iron background to find a fantasy scene
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- Shona: Colouring-over a Christmas card robin image – making a printed image into a waxed painting.
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- Michael: Basic iron effects for quick cards – the final image from a set made on teh card (see TV program).
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- Michael: Simple metallic wax on black card result using iron.
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- Michael: Spiral iron stamping
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- Michael: Square back end of iron with perspective enhanced.
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- Michael: Die cut “doyley” typoe paper for creating interesting imprints into the wax. ANY filigree die will work effectively for this.
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- Michael: Result from the filigree die cut paper (see previous photo)
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- Michael: Different tree types in simplest form
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- Michael: Ink stamp with fantasy environment developed afterwards
