Master classes for encaustic for adults and children( drawing with iron on paper)
2 master class for encaustic - draw mountains( for adults) and winter scenery( with children)
Encaustic is a painting technique in which you paint with molten paints, the connecting link of which is wax. In one of the techniques of encausticism( wax tempera), many early Christian icons were written. What can the modern encaustic offer? Love to household appliances, wax crayons and a completely unexpected result. Yes, you will need an iron, and instead of shirts and other household items we will "iron" a piece of paper. An example of the finished work you can see below.
Encaustic has several significant advantages:
1. As you know, drawing classes are a kind of antidepressant, but require certain skills( knowledge of proportions, palettes, color combinations, etc.), which can sometimes turn drawing into a real torture( in particular, if a small detail is not possible for a long time).In encaustic there can be no failed details, either because of the style of execution, or because of the means used for drawing( the iron and crayons are not as sensitive to slips as watercolors).
2. The materials are available and do not require any water dilution, no preliminary canvas preparation. You just need to sit down and start creating!
3. And most importantly( for the beautiful half of humanity - for sure) - encaustic is surprisingly "clean" technique. After it, you do not need to wash your hands, wash clothes and clean the surfaces nearest to the easel. Cleaning is good, but within reasonable limits.
Materials:
- Flat iron( with a smooth sole),
- Wax pencils,
- Glossy cardboard,
- Newspapers,
- Napkins or rags.
MK №1: draw the mountains
Heat the iron. We bring it to the melting point of the chalk. Now we put blue chalk, and we are ready to create a background for the future masterpiece.
As soon as the required amount of wax is on our iron, smoothly conduct them on paper. Repeat until the sheet is covered with a wonderful bluish background.
After applying the background, proceed to the mountains. For this, we will weld purple, brown and blue.
To "paint" mountains, we just press the iron to the background. It's simple enough, is not it?
Then put the sheet on the iron and draw the tops of the mountains."Only mountains can be better than mountains. ..", is not it?
We draw the sun in yellow.
We pass to the grass. We melt the green chalk and a little brown. Turn the iron horizontally and press the iron to the sheet for exactly one second and abruptly remove. It turns out quite an interesting effect.
We paint the birds and trees with black chalk( remember, we have to draw on the iron so that the picture is warm), and our drawing is ready.
MK №2: winter landscape( we paint together with the child)
How to draw a winter landscape with a child and at the same time do without excesses? If you want to do "iron painting" with children, then remember that the heated iron is not a toy for children. Therefore, prepare the background yourself, using an iron and the chalks you need, and the children will scratch the imagined drawing( the so-called "graft" technique).And it will turn out not worse than mountains, how do you like this winter landscape?
Video on this subject:
Of course, if you believe Vysotsky, then on the mountains encaustic should be over, but no, there is still a thousand and one object that you can capture with this unusual technique. And the below master classes on encaustic with their own hands will help to master this unusual technique for one hundred percent! The main thing, do not forget to clean the iron after your art researches, otherwise the clothes that you decide to iron with the tool of creativity will become an involuntary accomplice of your home artist's studio.
Encaustic is a technique of painting, in which they paint with molten paints, the connecting link of which is wax. In one of the techniques of encausticism( wax tempera), many early Christian icons were written. What can the modern encaustic offer? Love to household appliances, wax crayons and a completely unexpected result. Yes, you will need an iron, and instead of shirts and other household items we will "iron" a piece of paper. An example of the finished work you can see below.
Encaustic has several significant advantages:
1. As you know, drawing classes are a kind of antidepressant, but they require certain skills( knowledge of proportions, palette, color combination, etc.), which can sometimes turn drawing into a real torture( especially if you can not for some timesmall detail).In encaustic there can be no failed details, either because of the style of execution, or because of the means used for drawing( the iron and crayons are not as sensitive to slips as watercolors).
2. Materials are available and do not require any water dilution, no preliminary preparation of the canvas. You just need to sit down and start creating!
3. And most importantly( for the beautiful half of humanity - for sure) - encaustic is surprisingly "clean" technique. After it, you do not need to wash your hands, wash clothes and clean the surfaces nearest to the easel. Cleaning is good, but within reasonable limits.
Materials:
- Flat iron( with smooth sole),
- Wax pencils,
- Glossy cardboard,
- Newspapers,
- Napkins or rags.
MK №1: draw the mountains
Heat the iron. We bring it to the melting point of the chalk. Now we put blue chalk, and we are ready to create a background for the future masterpiece.
As soon as the required amount of wax is on our iron, smoothly conduct them on paper. Repeat until the sheet is covered with a wonderful bluish background.
After applying the background, proceed to the mountains. For this, we will weld purple, brown and blue.
To "paint" mountains, we just press the iron to the background. It's simple enough, is not it?
Then put the sheet on the iron and draw the tops of the mountains."Only mountains can be better than mountains. ..", is not it?
We draw the sun in yellow.
We pass to the grass. We melt the green chalk and a little brown. Turn the iron horizontally and press the iron to the sheet for exactly one second and abruptly remove. It turns out quite an interesting effect.
We finish drawing birds and trees with black chalk( remember, you have to draw on the iron so that the picture is warm), and our drawing is ready.
MK №2: winter landscape( we draw together with the child)
How to draw a winter landscape together with the child and at the same time do without excesses? If you want to do "iron painting" with children, then remember that the heated iron is not a toy for children. Therefore, prepare the background yourself, using an iron and the chalks you need, and the children will scratch the imagined drawing( the so-called "graft" technique).And it will turn out not worse than mountains, how do you like this winter landscape?
Video on this subject:
Of course, if you believe Vysotsky, then on the mountains encaustic should be over, but no, there is still a thousand and one object that you can capture with this unusual technique. And the below master classes on encaustic with their own hands will help to master this unusual technique for one hundred percent! The main thing, do not forget to clean the iron after your art researches, otherwise the clothes that you decide to iron with the tool of creativity will become an involuntary accomplice of your home artist's studio.