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Collaboration of two arts:
The way of flowers and of painting
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There is something thrilling and delightful about the way that oil painting with cold wax is created. The surface has many paintings beneath it. Sometimes there’s part of a previous layer I love and sometimes a part I struggled with. As I scrape off some of the surface layers I find even the parts that caused me grief can transform into something beautiful. The marks and the lines which are visible give history to the piece. I savor each element for its depth, literally and figuratively.
This way of painting gives me hope. Metaphorically, it’s a way to embrace the past with its marks left and to see that it makes the whole painting better. There is a redemptive power in that process. I’m trusting that the present and the future will reveal the past so I can move forward with the painting.
When I was a small girl I loved to go with my dad, who was a photographer, into the darkroom. Peering over the table and watching a photo emerge from the developer solution was always so magical. Painting with oil and cold wax harks back to those early happy days and continues to enchant me.
oil paint and mixed media
A cold wax oil painting is an oil painting mixed with a viscous wax instead of turpentine. The wax makes the paint have more body and texture, dry quicker and creates a matte finish. The painting is created by layering paint and scraping back to reveal colors beneath the top surfaces.
You can treat the artwork as you would any other oil painting. You don’t need to use glass when you frame it and you can ship or hang the artwork without the environmental concerns that wax encaustic would have.
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wax encaustic monoprints
A wax encaustic monoprint is made by melting pigmented wax on a hot metal plate. While the wax is in its liquid state you draw and manipulate the wax with silicone tools and other elements to create patterns and designs. You then press a piece of paper on top of the wax and pull it off creating a one of a kind work of art. Although it is a printing process, as the name implies it it a singular original work not part of a series.
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