Lyn Kirkland is a professional artist and brand ambassador for R&F. She visited the Jackson's Studio to demonstrate how she paints with R&F Encaustic Wax and Pigment Sticks.
In this film, Lyn takes us through the tools and equipment needed to get started with encaustic wax painting. She also explains how she creates texture and depth in her artworks by building up layers of wax alongside other materials, such as inks, mica powders and pan pastels.
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0:00 Introduction
0:39 Why Dammar is used in Encaustic Medium
1:00 Why Lyn loves working with R&F Paints and Pigments
1:26 Brief history of Encaustic Wax
1:51 What you need to start painting with Encaustic Wax
3:20 Surfaces can you use to paint on with Encaustic Wax
4:37 Using Encaustic Wax with other mediums - Alcohol Inks, Mica Powder, PanPastels, Gold Leaf, Metallic Paper
5:21 Tools you can use with Encaustic Wax
5:56 Preparing your panel for Encaustic Painting
6:33 Taping the edges of the panel
6:58 Warming the panel
7:50 Applying wax to the panel
8:08 Fusing the wax
10:10 Reworking a part finished panel with Encaustic paint
11:23 Subtracting Layers
11:47 Adding Alcohol Ink
12:45 Techniques for adding texture - Embedding silk and incising lines
15:19 Accretion / Dry Brushing Technique
16:49 Using Dry Pigment / Mica Powder
17:14 Using stencils with PanPastel on an Encaustic panel
17:54 Cleaning up brushes
18:42 Advantages of Encaustic Wax Painting
20:02 Caring for your Encaustic Painting
21:02 Properties of R&F Pigment Sticks
21:38 Differences between R&F Pigment Sticks and traditional paint bars
21:55 Applying, blending and drawing with R&F Pigment Sticks
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