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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
Chaos in the 4 effects 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.
Chaotic abstract artwork
1. Chaotic abstract where the painter "finds" forms in the wax without preconception.
Rhythmic patterned artwork - some control 2. Patterned abstract where strokes are repeated to form rhythmic patterns
mandala - reflected pattern & structure 3. Structured pattern e.g. Mandala where patterns are reflected like a kaleidoscope
simplest landscape structure 4. Simplest structure for landscape use no.8 blue green colour
the zigzag landscape  - iron technique 5. Zig-zag landscape - natural colour & full effect No.23 Olive Green & 14 Yellow Brown
Rubbed sky & colour harmony 6. Rubbed sky & added colour harmony into foreground (reflect sky colours)

full iron painted sky and landscape 7. Full iron painted sky and landscape
card after printing off to fabric 8a. Fabric print of full A6 landscape
Wax image printed onto fabric 8b. Fabric print of full A6 landscape - see above link
Doodling with the encaustic stylus for graphic control 9. Stylus scribing tool doodle on a card
Using the scribing tool 9. Stylus scribing tool doodle on a card - see above link
Indirect wax transfer - pool scene 10a. Indirect wax transfer for stones in water with dragonflies
Indirect wax transfer - hilltop castle 10b. Indirect wax transfer for a hilltop castle
fantasy castle pathway 11. Fantasy castles and path using dragged point for horizon - perspective
fantasy scry - inner worlds 12. Fantasy Scry and scriber.
combining encautic environments with stamped images 13. Black pen, rubber stamps, silhouettes, etc. - using translucent wax
There are 4 basic horizon shapes to learn....
Flat encaustic horizon a) Flat horizon with water rubbed beneath
Low hills made by the rounded edge of the iron b) Low hills - caused by the rounded shape of the iron's upper edge
High Hills - encaustic iron tip in rounded  movement c) High hills made with the tip of the iron in rounded movements
Peaks - made using the iron's edge in jagged transverse movement d) Peaks & Mountians - made using the iron's edge in jagged transverse movement
 Alpine mountains and rubbed lake. 14. Alpine mountains and rubbed lake - see example below
A5 sized landscape with iron sky, hills, distant trees, water lake, 15. A5 sized landscape (watch landscape video) with iron sky, hills, distant trees, water lake, foreground.

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