How to paint with encuastic, oil, photo transfer by David Gonville
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Lots of people ask me how I paint with oil, encaustic bees wax and photo-transfers. My technique is always slightly different but here is a basic rundown. I documented the process for creating my painting titled “Cold Water Classic”.
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Signature
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Just finished up a few more encaustic and mixed-media paintings, in this photo you can see pieces of paper, that’s my signature being transfered onto the waxy surface.
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photo transfer on encaustic paintings
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Lots of people have been asking me how to transfer photos to encaustic paintings?
This is what I do to transfer toner prints onto my paintings. This also works with acrylic medium, but the process is a bit different.
1. Use bees wax encaustic, heat with an iron, to make a flat surface on your painting. you can mix with oil paint (around 30% paint to wax)
2. take a photo you want to transfer, (I usually use my own photos) reverse and edit in photoshop, convert to greyscale and adjust contrasts.
3. print with a toner style printer, (some inkjets and color printers work too) I have a basic Brother.
4. take the print, put face down on top of flat waxy surface.
5. Rub with hard smooth object, for few minutes until entire area is totally covered, then leave it for ten minutes.
6. poor water on paper, put wet towel or face cloth on it to help soak into paper , leave for 10 min.
7. remove towel, take your finger and rub surface of paper until you dissolve the paper away, keep doing it gently if you need to get rid of more paper.
8. let dry, rub rest on paper residue away.
9. should leave just the toner image on wax surface.
10. If you choose, layer over with more wax
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Reclaimed wood
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
I’ve been making my own frames using “reclaimed wood” mostly extra scrap I find around the shop and mill building. Amaizing what you can do with a little Gorilla Grip, and a miter saw.
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Studio tools and supplies
Monday, June 16, 2008
Some people have asked what I use to paint with. Lately I’ve been interested in using bees wax, Darland wax, combined with oil paint, various brushes, graphic pencils and a fine Sharpy. I use a basic Black & Decker iron to heat and mix wax for layering. I also use a carbide scrapper and box cutting blade to remove layers as well. The old laptop is for referencing my photos and getting online, accessing network to print photos for transfers off a Brother laser printer.
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New Panel Canvas
Thursday, May 01, 2008
I like to paint on board so I had Denis Lusier at Artfriendly build a few panels, the stretchers are 2” wide and the canvas is 23"x23”.
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