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Encaustic Art T1 Basic Skills List |
| Michael Bossom started his work with encaustic at the very
begining of 1987 and has inspired and demonstrated some of the simpler techniques
to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide ever since then. A teaching
network was first started in Holland in 1992 and since then much has progressed.
A couple of years later Michael set up this selection of fifteen main image
modules in a effort to pass on basic skills using a progression of techniques.
These folowing images and the ability to teach them successfully to others
are the foundation of the encaustic art teaching network today. Of course,
this is just the tip of a huge creative iceburg! |
| Click images for larger viewing. Click linked names below to open a new page for full step by step explaination from the web resource site, techniques section at www.encaustic.com |
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At the start of learning there is chaos and an open mind.
Skill is the development of control and predictability. Art can be the imaginative
use of such skill or the keen perception that may emerge during the creative
process, where the participant (artist) identifies, understands or "knows"
that the artwork is complete - time to stop. |
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1. Chaotic abstract where the painter "finds" forms in the wax
without preconception. |
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2. Patterned abstract where strokes are repeated to form rhythmic patterns
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3. Structured pattern e.g. Mandala where patterns are reflected like a
kaleidoscope
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4. Simplest structure for landscape use no.8 blue green colour
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5. Zig-zag landscape - natural colour & full effect No.23 Olive Green
& 14 Yellow Brown
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6. Rubbed sky & added colour harmony into foreground (reflect sky
colours)
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7. Full iron painted sky and landscape |
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8a. Fabric print of full A6 landscape |
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8b. Fabric print of full A6 landscape - see above link
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9. Stylus scribing tool doodle on a card |
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9. Stylus scribing tool doodle on a card - see above link
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10a. Indirect wax transfer for stones in water with dragonflies
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10b. Indirect wax transfer for a hilltop castle |
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11. Fantasy castles and path using dragged point for horizon - perspective
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12. Fantasy Scry and scriber.
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13. Black pen, rubber stamps, silhouettes, etc. - using translucent wax
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a) Flat horizon with water rubbed beneath |
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b) Low hills - caused by the rounded shape of the iron's upper edge |
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c) High hills made with the tip of the iron in rounded movements |
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d) Peaks & Mountians - made using the iron's edge in jagged transverse movement |
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14. Alpine mountains and rubbed lake - see example below |
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15. A5 sized landscape (watch landscape video) with iron sky, hills, distant trees, water lake,
foreground. |
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