Encaustic Painting Techniques: Mark Making and Color Video Download

Description

Tell your story with encaustic!

In Cathy Nichols’ Encaustic Painting Techniques: Mark Making and Color video, you’ll discover how to take your encaustic painting to the next level! You’ll begin by creating a one-color encaustic background and using a reverse transfer method to anchor your painting with an inspiring character. Then Cathy shows you, and student Amy Jones, how to work with brightly-colored encaustic paint, including techniques for color mixing, layering, and fusing. You’ll finish by adding your own unique marks and drawing to the background using sgraffito, leaving your painting with a characteristic vignette look!

In this video you will:

• Set up a safe encaustic studio
• Paint and fuse colorful encaustic layers
• Transfer a pencil drawing to a wax surface
• Use mark making tools to develop a magical landscape

Watch a preview of this video here:

About the Artist

Cathy Nichols’ “stories in paint” combine her dual background in literature and art, expressing mystery, emotion and storytelling in paint. Cathy lives in Asheville, NC, but her painted narratives have touched audiences worldwide. She is the author of the North Light book Storytelling Art Studio: Visual Expressions of Character, Mood and Theme Using Mixed Media. Visit cathynichols.com to see more artwork and to join Cathy’s community of storytellers.

MATERIALS

Surface

• 8″ x 8″ cradled wood panel

Media

• Encaustic medium
• Encaustic paints  (Cathy uses Teal, Malachite, Celadon Green, Pink, Cadmium Red Light, Titanium White, Paynes Gray, Cadmium Green Pale, Raw Sienna, Neutral White, Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Green, and Enkaustikos Fluorescent Set of mini paints)
• Paynes Gray oil paint

Other Tools and Materials

• Encaustic palette or electric griddle with temperature control
• Mini bread pan
• Small tin (cleaned tuna cans work great)
• Soy wax or paraffin wax (to clean brushes)
• Natural bristle brushes – small, medium, and large
• Soft brush (for oil paint)
• Needle-tipped metal stylus or awl
• Turpenoid natural
• Paper towels
• Heat gun
• Latex gloves
• 4″ pencil drawing of a character
• Tracing paper
• Burnishing tool or credit card
• Stencils with flowers and patterns
• Reference photos of flowers
• Assorted mark making tools (fruit corer, wire brush, wooden stamps, etc)
• Masking tape
• Rhinestones

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