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A Guide to Encaustic Wax Painting using R&F Encaustic Wax with Lyn Kirkland | Jackson's Art
- Type
- Video
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 24 min
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2022
About this lesson
Lyn Kirkland's guide to encaustic painting with R&F wax: why dammar is used, a brief history, tools, surfaces and preparing a panel.
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:39Why Dammar is used in Encaustic Medium
- 1:00Why Lyn loves working with R&F Paints and Pigments
- 1:26Brief history of Encaustic Wax
- 1:51What you need to start painting with Encaustic Wax
- 3:20Surfaces can you use to paint on with Encaustic Wax
- 5:21Tools you can use with Encaustic Wax
- 5:56Preparing your panel for Encaustic Painting
- 6:33Taping the edges of the panel
- 6:58Warming the panel
- 7:50Applying wax to the panel
- 8:08Fusing the wax
- 10:10Reworking a part finished panel with Encaustic paint
- 11:23Subtracting Layers
- 11:47Adding Alcohol Ink
- 12:45Techniques for adding texture - Embedding silk and incising lines
- 15:19Accretion / Dry Brushing Technique
- 16:49Using Dry Pigment / Mica Powder
- 17:14Using stencils with PanPastel on an Encaustic panel
- 17:54Cleaning up brushes
- 18:42Advantages of Encaustic Wax Painting
- 20:02Caring for your Encaustic Painting
- 21:02Properties of R&F Pigment Sticks
- 21:38Differences between R&F Pigment Sticks and traditional paint bars
- 21:55Applying, blending and drawing with R&F Pigment Sticks
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