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Working with Gamblin's Cold Wax Medium
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2019
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.
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