The Paper Crane

Read­ing a lit­tle about encaus­tic paint­ing today, which is heat­ing and mix­ing bee’s wax and pig­ment and paint­ing with it. Encaus­tic paint­ing is a par­tic­u­lar style I am really inter­ested in and would like to exper­i­ment with. Today I went to the art sup­ply store to buy mate­ri­als. Quite pricey for mate­r­ial. For now I am using a dif­fer­ent encaus­tic method; I melted crayons with an iron directly on my can­vas and used a metal tool to work with it. It dries super fast. Later I go pack in with paint to fill in details around and over the col­ored, waxy areas.