Loved the video! Great idea for me as a total beginner! I’ve been a potter and I’ve got to reduce the hard work, lifting and bending of clay work for a while as I’m having spinal fusion surgery done in a few weeks! But this is a great “learning“ project for me and you show so many elements of the process that I think I’ll be able to achieve a good outcome - very exciting!
Wonderful! I hope it works out! I would love to do pottery but I have an iffy back myself so maybe not a great medium for me. I hope your fusion surgery helps you. Back pain can be so debilitating. good luck!
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@@cindyjamesartstudio didn’t get where about you live tbh, but in the north of Germany we have typical April weather 😅🥶💨 ☔️ best time to play with wax 🥰
Thank you so much for sharing this tutorial! This is exactly what I have been wanting from encaustic since I started but I was never sure how to go about it in a way that lasts (I’ve tried layering the leaf within layers of clear wax and it never turns out)
Yes that is definitely best practice but for the initial layers it’s going on warm over warm so I usually do 3 or 4 on these small paintings. On a big piece yes the wax would cool between layers so definitely fuse between each one!
thank you. Over my tabletop I have aluminum foil, then red silicone baking mats, and on top of those I use a teflon oven liner. I found the black oven liner easier to clean than the red silicone baking mats.
Can you please identify the hand-held heat source you use? I've been using a heat gun; but would like something with a smaller nozzle to work on details.
Thank you so much for this! I love all the detail you put into showing us the technique. So helpful! Beautiful results!! Is that a silicone mat under your work space?
Thank you! My bench is covered with tin foil taped down and there are silicone mats over that. I recently discovered these black oven liners so I have those over the silicone mats. My silicone mats are textured and they clean up fairly quick but these oven liners wipe up even quicker with a quick pass with the heat gun and paper towel. I can pick off most of the wax first too. I’ll see if I can find a link
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I do have a general materials list on my website under studio setup -- but that is a good suggestion on each video. I always appreciate links to materials. I'll try to incorporate that going forward. Is there something from this video that you would like information on? www.cynthiajames.ca/vid-pdf#/pdfs/ someone asked about the black teflon baking sheet...here is a link to that www.amazon.ca/Cookina-Cuisine-Non-Stick-Cooking-Protector/dp/B01HXD72KM/ref=asc_df_B01HXD72KM/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292936221072&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4033434862532229128&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9061280&hvtargid=pla-314849364664&psc=1
Hi Patricia. They should be fine in a sunroom but it will depend on a few things. They shouldn’t be hung in direct sunlight, and when it’s hot they might be a little more soft. They won’t melt unless the temperature is closer to maybe 100 degrees or more, but if it’s very dusty in your sunroom with screens they could have dust stick to the surface. I had a painting in my entryway for a summer one year and the screen door was directly across from it, and the screen was open and the wind would blow dust in there and it was hot with the sun shining on it and after the summer, I noticed it did have little black specks of dust basically embedded in the wax. The painting was fine. Otherwise it just got a little dirty and I still have it. That won’t likely happen unless it’s in kind of an extreme spot where it’s subjected to that blowing dust onto the surface of a warm painting. The other thing is if your sunroom gets very cold and the painting freezes - like it would here where I am in the winter time - then that’s not a good spot, because as soon as your wax freezes it contracts and can crack. Encaustic handle temperature swings without a problem, but if you get into the extremes, then it can be damaged. Leaving it in a car on a very hot or cold day is a bad idea. or maybe above a fireplace has a lot of direct heat up onto the painting. Hope that answers your question
