With the colours that you choose John will create a personal, beautiful and unique wax painting for you with an iron.
I've experimented with wax paintings on canvas, wood and paper, and found that thick, absorbent paper gives the result I like best.
One artist, Cornelius Delaney, has done a series of 3D works using recycled objects in encaustic - wax painting that was used by the Egyptians to seal boats and later by Greeks to make death masks.
During the course… learners will learn techniques of encaustic wax painting, using an iron, hot air gun, scriber, hot brush, hot stylus etc, using coloured and metallic waxes.
He is presently working in encaustic wax paintings.
I have done some acrylic paintings on my own and have collected quite a few acrylic, oil and wax paintings over the year.
Developed as part of a larger performance, this series of wax paintings on Plexiglas was created live, in front of an audience.
All these wax paintings are original and painted by me on good quality canvas or watercolour paper.
It is most likely that this is the resin component of the majority of the wax paintings done by the Mexicans and by Rivera in particular.
I think wax painting is a great therapeutic art form that it would fit in great at a hospital.
They will cover a range of topics including flower drawing and painting, pastel, acrylic, oil, and wax painting - so there is something for everyone in that packed programme.
He took a poor-quality video of a boy making various facial expressions, then culled a number of stills out of the tape and made wax paintings of them.
Much time and care is required with each wax painting.
If you are new to wax painting then this simple-to-make design will set you off on the road to loving this craft.
Thousands of these icons were later destroyed; only a few remain, with the oldest painting of Christ surviving as an excellent example of the permanence of wax paintings.
Encaustic wax painting has been around for the last 2,500 years and was practised by the Ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians.
To some, wax painting is thought to be a relatively new art form.