Encaustic Painting – Basic Wax Tools & Techniques

This class is for everyone, whether you're a beginner or experienced artist.

Love working with mixed-media? Join Alexandra Reid as she helps you to explore the world of creating with hot wax and oil paint, called encaustic painting.

In this class you will receive a quick overview of encaustic painting through the ages, and then on to learning the basic tools and techniques.

Some of the things we will cover in this class:

• Making your own encaustic medium
• Colouring your medium with pigments and paints
• Choosing substrates to paint on
• Using different 'hot' tools to paint with
• Fusing your paint layers to build up depth

By the end of this class, you will have learned how paint using an ancient technique in a fun and modern way.

Come and get ready to wax on!

• Introduction
• Encaustic Origins
• Making Encaustic Medium
• Colouring Medium
• Painting Substrates
• Using Hot Tools
• Fusing Layers
• Class Project
• Caring for Encaustic
• Final Thoughts