Cathy Nichols | Runtime (105 min)

In this video workshop, tell your story in encaustic as Cathy Nichols guides you every step of the way! You’ll start by creating a one-color encaustic background and trying out the 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.

Encaustic Painting Techniques: Mark Making and Color

MATERIALS

Surface

8" x 8" cradled wood panel

Media

Encaustic medium
Encaustic paints (Cathy uses Teal, Malachite, Celadon Green, Pink, Cadmium Red Light, Titanium White, Paynes Gray, Cadmium Green Pale, Raw Sienna, Neutral White, Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Green, and Enkaustikos Fluorescent Set of mini paints)
Paynes Gray oil paint

Other Tools and Materials

Encaustic palette or electric griddle with temperature control
Mini bread pan
Small tin (cleaned tuna cans work great)
Soy wax or paraffin wax (to clean brushes)
Natural bristle brushes - small, medium, and large
Soft brush (for oil paint)
Needle-tipped metal stylus or awl
Turpenoid natural
Paper towels
Heat gun
Latex gloves
4" pencil drawing of a character
Tracing paper
Burnishing tool or credit card
Stencils with flowers and patterns
Reference photos of flowers
Assorted mark making tools (fruit corer, wire brush, wooden stamps, etc)
Masking tape
Rhinestones

Download the Wonder Girl reference image here

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Steve 8/22/2018

Mailee 1/24/2018

Candy 1/10/2018

This is the second ti me I've watched this video. I got much more out of it this time. I have used over 10 pounds of wax and have a good feel for encaustics now, so the things she taught today have encouraged me to go back to more simple things and just incise and enjoy the process.

Sherry 10/4/2017

Gwen 8/19/2017

Rosemarie 7/16/2017