Another photo encaustic painting for you today.
I feel I should explain photo encaustic just to clarify. Basically, it means a photo was used along with encaustic medium and /or encaustic paint. In its simplest form, a photo is glued to a board and then 1 or more layers of encaustic medium (without pigment) are added. These paintings of mine are pretty much at the other end of the spectrum. I use the photo more as an under drawing and the photo itself is completely covered with encaustic paint (medium with pigments added). I love being able to add textures and change the colors of the original photo if I want.
These 2 photos are from the the many ones I took at Eaton Ranch. Specifically this horse is Forest whom we got to do a photo shoot with. He is very photogenic!!!
I started with a background of blues with splatters of bronze, blue, turquoise and white. A couple layers of medium to smooth the painting back out again - the photos with lay nicer to embed on a less textured surface. Both photos were printed out onto tissue paper.
I started with the top photo and added alot of detail and texture and then smothed him out with a couple layers of medium - to smooth the way for the next photo but also to push that photo into the background a bit (to add some depth to the painting...)
I then embedded the second photo and did all his details and texture. All the detail work on both photos was done with a very fine tip hot pen. Total hot pen work on this painting was about 6 hours' worth as the studio yesterday.
The last part of the painting was adding back a few more splatters and a bit of pan pastels in the foreground to give Forest something to stand on.
All for today - Take Care
Tera
