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Working with Gamblin's Cold Wax Medium

By Michael Chesley Johnson

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2019
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About this lesson

A painter compares three uses of cold wax medium: mixed into oil paint for translucent, matte passages; brushed on as a saturating varnish; and used encaustic-style with pigment worked directly into the wax for embedding objects like photographs and scratching into the surface.