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A Guide to Encaustic Wax Painting using R&F Encaustic Wax with Lyn Kirkland | Jackson's Art

By Jackson's Art

Type
Video
Level
Beginner
Length
24 min
Price
Free
Published
2022
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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

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:39Why Dammar is used in Encaustic Medium
  3. 1:00Why Lyn loves working with R&F Paints and Pigments
  4. 1:26Brief history of Encaustic Wax
  5. 1:51What you need to start painting with Encaustic Wax
  6. 3:20Surfaces can you use to paint on with Encaustic Wax
  7. 5:21Tools you can use with Encaustic Wax
  8. 5:56Preparing your panel for Encaustic Painting
  9. 6:33Taping the edges of the panel
  10. 6:58Warming the panel
  11. 7:50Applying wax to the panel
  12. 8:08Fusing the wax
  13. 10:10Reworking a part finished panel with Encaustic paint
  14. 11:23Subtracting Layers
  15. 11:47Adding Alcohol Ink
  16. 12:45Techniques for adding texture - Embedding silk and incising lines
  17. 15:19Accretion / Dry Brushing Technique
  18. 16:49Using Dry Pigment / Mica Powder
  19. 17:14Using stencils with PanPastel on an Encaustic panel
  20. 17:54Cleaning up brushes
  21. 18:42Advantages of Encaustic Wax Painting
  22. 20:02Caring for your Encaustic Painting
  23. 21:02Properties of R&F Pigment Sticks
  24. 21:38Differences between R&F Pigment Sticks and traditional paint bars
  25. 21:55Applying, blending and drawing with R&F Pigment Sticks