Hello Nancy. Love this finished piece! It made me wonder if I could use a corner of an old sweater that my Mom knit many years ago ....... would wool be a good fabric ...... maybe overlay it over some of her handwriting ..... I appreciate your feedback for this idea .... T I A
As we have heard from Nancy many times, encaustic medium, wax is not a glue. So yes she recommends to glue down the paper first, Nancy's favourite glue is Yes paste. Light papers such as napkins are thin enough that they absorb the wax so they do not require gluing. I was fortunate to have taken a couple of workshops with Nancy and her on line workshop. She was the best teacher I had, her videos can be trusted to offer the best advice as she tested every technique thoroughly before teaching it.
+SavvyLikeThat Hello there. No, the wax that I'm using is encaustic medium which is a mixture of beeswax and damar resin. Depending on the brand that you use it is anywhere in the range of 7:1 or 9:1 proportion wax to resin. I hope that helps.
I have made a piece that uses 20lb copy paper with black text printed on it. When doing wax over it, parts of the paper discolor and go darker while others remain white. Should i be using a heavier card stock to avoid discoloration or do you have any suggestions on how to avoid this?
Hello Tracey. All your papers will "discolour" with wax - usually becoming either darker in tone or translucent. This takes some experimenting in order to predict how things may change. I usually like to work on heavy papers - either Stonehenge, BFK Rives paper or matt board. Also, in order to get your tones more even and consistent, you might want to add more wax and spend more time fusing so that the tones on your paper are more uniform. Sometimes it requires fusing 3 - 5 times. I hope that helps! Let me know how things work out!
Hello Nancy. Love this finished piece! It made me wonder if I could use a corner of an old sweater that my Mom knit many years ago ....... would wool be a good fabric ...... maybe overlay it over some of her handwriting ..... I appreciate your feedback for this idea .... T I A
Wonderful! Did you adhere your papers to the board first?
Very informative and the sound is perfect!
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Thanks for sharing. You give me lots of ideas to think about.
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What can I do to do to make the paper dark?
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Do you glue the papers down first? It seems like they are already layered in this video before you are putting the top coat of wax on them.
As we have heard from Nancy many times, encaustic medium, wax is not a glue. So yes she recommends to glue down the paper first, Nancy's favourite glue is Yes paste. Light papers such as napkins are thin enough that they absorb the wax so they do not require gluing. I was fortunate to have taken a couple of workshops with Nancy and her on line workshop. She was the best teacher I had, her videos can be trusted to offer the best advice as she tested every technique thoroughly before teaching it.
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ok i will try.both..
What is the base wax you use? Just normal bees wax?
+SavvyLikeThat Hello there. No, the wax that I'm using is encaustic medium which is a mixture of beeswax and damar resin. Depending on the brand that you use it is anywhere in the range of 7:1 or 9:1 proportion wax to resin. I hope that helps.
It does! Thanks :D
What brand of encaustic medium do use in this video?
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I have made a piece that uses 20lb copy paper with black text printed on it. When doing wax over it, parts of the paper discolor and go darker while others remain white. Should i be using a heavier card stock to avoid discoloration or do you have any suggestions on how to avoid this?
Hello Tracey. All your papers will "discolour" with wax - usually becoming either darker in tone or translucent. This takes some experimenting in order to predict how things may change. I usually like to work on heavy papers - either Stonehenge, BFK Rives paper or matt board. Also, in order to get your tones more even and consistent, you might want to add more wax and spend more time fusing so that the tones on your paper are more uniform. Sometimes it requires fusing 3 - 5 times. I hope that helps! Let me know how things work out!
The same thing happens when you apply vaseline..I had accidentally discovered it..it was dope..
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