[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-encaustic-wax-painting-with-my-sister":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I'm in Portland now, for \u003Ca href=\"http://www.stumptowncomics.com\">Stumptown comics festival\u003C/a> this weekend, but while my sister and I were at her house in Seattle, she showed me how to do some encaustic painting with beeswax and oil paint. Here's a collage picture we did together; I really like how the textures and colours came out.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/encaustic2-37f5df4ead.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAs a side note, I was digging through some old photos at my parents' house and found this picture of Mary and me, painting together at the kitchen table when we were a bit younger. (That's Mary on the right.) \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarahmary-5e1fae525f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the first encaustic painting I did, of an outraged beaver, like the one I drew in my \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/389474.html\">last post\u003C/a> for the Stumptown comic. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/encaustic1-f67890b1f4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click for more under the cut-->\\r\nI drew this one very fast and it came out way better than another picture I did of an armadillo, where I spent way more time on it. I think big, simple shapes work better with encaustic painting than detailed drawings. My sister had me look at work by \u003Ca href=\"http://www.planetjanetart.com/portfolio.html\">Janet Miller\u003C/a>, who does some great stuff with simple shapes and very limited palettes. \\r\n\\r\nI love that my sister has all the gear, so I can try out stuff. Here's her hot plate where we melted the beeswax. We painted the wax over some ripped-up map paper to give the surface some texture. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/encaustic5-bc83fef832.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's Mary's oil painting station, where we added paint on top of the texture. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/encaustic3-80233f46a4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYou can see the plain beeswax coating in the sky of this picture before we painted it. I like how it makes everything go a bit sepia coloured. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/encaustic4-e1a001ae49.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI'm sad my sister and I don't get more chances to make stuff together, but it's fabulous when it happens.","2011-04-15T22:36:00.000Z","encaustic-wax-painting-with-my-sister",[],"encaustic wax painting with my sister",1776628719991]