So as some of you know my wife runs an arts/pottery school, and got excited about this cool new teacher they found who does ENCAUSTIC painting. (I know, sounds like a disease, no?)
So she asked if I would take this 1-day workshop with her (she thinks doing things together is romantic, etc)... and so I agreed because:
a) I like art
b) it allowed me to say no to dance classes
ANYWAYS... was pretty fun/interesting! This encaustic stuff is all about using layers of MELTED WAX. You mix pigments of colors into the hot wax and brush it on, then you fuse it with a heat-gun, which can make the wax run or texture to your liking.
You can also put different images and materials INTO the wax to create collages etc./ transfer images printed off the net by laser-printing stuff on carbon paper
Lots of freedom, you can create many layers as you want.
Had a good time.
Here are the ones I made:
Here are the ones Mrs Masato made:


