Wax on Wednesdays Happy New Year ! January Collage Month

Happy New Year!
This month on Wax on Wednesdays we will be exploring the exciting world of encaustic collage. There are a million ways to approach this, just like traditional collage . You can dive in with different styles , pigments, papers, and adhesives. There is no one right way to approach encaustic collage, but there are some helpful tips to help build a successful piece  .

This week I created a collage with hand painted water color papers. Other mediums that can be used for hand painted papers are;
India inks
gouache 
watercolor
alcohol inks 
walnut ink
Oil sticks

I created the collage with an archival Pva glue and used the encaustic as a finish on the collage. Light weight papers can also be embedded into encaustic wax layers to create a collage as we will explore throughout the month. 

Layers of encaustic wax can be added over the collage to  create textures , add additional pigments such as oil sticks or pastels to further enhance the collage , etc. 

Supplies I used this week:
Each week I list the supplies I used in the video here on the blog for you so that you can see and easily find the items used for that week's  technique . 

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If you would like to dive in to encaustic collage exploration , "Encausticology Collage Journey" workshop is available with lifetime access ! See all of the details 
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