Encaustic Work In Progress albums
These albums show how to develop a complex encaustic image, step by step.
This page will often change, I'll add more WIP-s, as I paint more...
IMAGINATION - the final version, with a not very successful photo, sorry about that!
I made first a pencil sketch, using a very old, black and white photo, without the background; all the other details came from memory...the right side shows the first layer with MPO.
A "premiere plan"
IMAGINATION - the final version, with a not very successful photo, sorry about that!
This is the final version
So it started: after a raw pencil sketch I started to paint the house first and realized: how uncomfortable to work tiny details with encaustic, on a huge size...
...the final version of my face: there was no photo-reference, only my knowledge about myself...I tried NOT to idealize...
This is the final version
The first layer with the new medium: MPO. I mixed the wax-paste with a very small amount of oil paint
I mixed gold and copper pigments with MPO, and added another layer
more, thin layers with colors, here and there. here I am now, still far from finished, to be continued...
The first layer with the new medium: MPO. I mixed the wax-paste with a very small amount of oil paint
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