Encaustic Painting Techniques: Mark Making and Color Video Download

Description

Tell your story with encaustic!

In Cathy Nichols’ Encaustic Painting Techniques: Mark Making and Color video, you’ll learn how to take your encaustic painting to the next level! You’ll start by creating a one-color encaustic background and trying out a reverse transfer method to anchor your painting with an imaginative character. Then Cathy shows you, and student Amy Jones, how to work with brightly-colored encaustic paint, including techniques for color mixing, layering, and fusing. You’ll finish by adding your own unique marks and drawing to the background using sgraffito, leaving your painting with a characteristic vignette look!

In this video you will:

• Set up a safe encaustic studio
• Paint and fuse colorful encaustic layers
• Transfer a pencil drawing to a wax surface
• Use mark making tools to develop a magical landscape

About the Artist
Cathy Nichols’ “stories in paint” combine her dual background in literature and art, expressing mystery, emotion and storytelling in paint. Cathy lives in Asheville, NC, but her painted narratives have touched audiences worldwide. She is the author of the North Light book Storytelling Art Studio: Visual Expressions of Character, Mood and Theme Using Mixed Media. Visit cathynichols.com to see more artwork and to join Cathy’s community of storytellers.

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