Hallo,
I have a ton of photos for you today - put a photo of the finished painting at the start and then the progession of this painting - and then the last 3 photos are again of the finished painting.
The first picture shows the backround of a painting that I decided to redo - I kinda liked the colors and the wax has small beads and copper and gold metallic foil embedded into it so I decided to make some flower forms out of it. I heated sections at a time and pulled up small strips while the wax was warm and rolled them into flowers.
I repainted the board and started a faux ivory type technique on it but added some papers and an image of a victorian woman for collage.
I continued with the faux ivory by using a stencil to make it look like a brick wall - reminding me of some of the old buildings we saw in Italy many years ago.
I smoothed that layer out a little with a layer of plain medium and then used another stencil - a leaf type with a greenish gray color to make 'shadow' leaves. Then I added more of the ivory encaustic with the leaf stencil.
Then I started adding my flowers, and more flowers, and more.....may have over done it??
Last but not least I added gold leaf foil in several spots for just a touch of shine and glitz.
I am really loving the encaustic online course I am taking - the faux ivory is one of the techniques I have learned .....
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All for tonight - Take Care
Tera
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