Article · Pacific Art League
PAL Art Tip: Stories in Wax
By AC Gould
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
About this lesson
A non-profit art school's tip on embedding papers, fabric and photographs into molten beeswax medium, explaining how to layer materials at different depths, fuse each layer with heat, and carve back into the cooled wax to reveal buried imagery.
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