Saturday 4 July 2009

Oriental Encaustic

This is one i made on encaustic background. It was as often mine are, an experiment and an adventure. Could i combine the wax and alcohol inks on a background ? Could i use stazon ink on the wax and would it work ? How would i make an image stick to wax ?

Well .... I worked the pattern in wax then scraped my pattern. I then dabbed with alcohol ink and wiped which gave the lilac colour. Then i scraped more to give the white.
I then stamped the curly leaves in purple stazon. It dried and stayed.
Lastly how to stick my lovely oriental lady? ... Simple. I just heated the wax again with a heat gun and immediately pressed the image down into it and left to dry.

Hope you like my oriental experiment with wax
It is created for the Lots to Do challenge which was including a stamped image on your work.

7 comments:

sam21ski said...

WOW June this is fab, love the background colours too

Thanks for playing with us this week on the Lotstodo Challenge - Sam xxxx

Meikoningin said...

Very nice to read how and what you tried out ! The result is gorgeous, very pretty colourcombination :D Love the image :)

Stef H said...

you are just amazing!

hugs,

vikkithescrapjunkie said...

This is fantastic June, Its great fun experimenting and especially when it works and you achieve a fantastic result like this... super work.
Love n hugs
Vikki xx

Diane said...

thanks for sharing your experience with your experimentation! it turned out beautifully!

Ellen said...

great combination of techniques that lady looks great on the waxy background

Ang C said...

A fantastic background