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| 80 cm x 80 cm |
I started with a beautiful, smooth cradled board, primed it with yellow milk paint and began the under painting in oil.
The next step is to cover the whole surface with clear encaustic medium and add oil glazes and texture. I build layers with the oil and encaustic and go back and forth. Occasionally I will add a touch of oil pastel, but very little, since it has a paraffin base, not beeswax and I do not want the 2 waxes to be incompatible.
I pound textures into the wax and layer stenciling to get the finished look.
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| detail |
I have been working on this painting off and on for a couple of weeks. I started out by putting it in the hot sun and scraping it down to the board, leaving lovely stains on the milk paint base and a very thin layer of wax. I then starting drawing with charcoal, and scraped out the figures. I kept adding encaustic paint, oil stick glazes, more charcoal and on and on.
