Encaustic Paint and Watercolors

I used 140 lb watercolor paper, my Purple Cows Melt Craft Iron on low and some dark blue and black encaustic paint.

Using the stylus or pen tip on the craft iron, I started to draw a flower. You could easily trace a design onto the paper in light pencil then just draw over the pencil lines with the warm wax paint.

And on it goes. In this image you can see the way I set the craft iron tip onto the wax kind of sideways so I can watch the wax draw up into the center slit of the stylus tip. That’s how I can tell if I have enough paint to work with.

Like working with a dip pen, I just keep filling the tip and adding lines to my artwork.

And here is the finished flower with some fun lines to work with. Anything that is unpainted with wax will be filled in with watercolor.

Now I’m starting another one–the is the beginning of a leaf.

Like the flower before, I just keep adding lines and texture with the wax.

Here’s my leaf after the wax paint and before the watercolor.

Now I’m starting to add some watercolor. My favorite part of this project is the way you can let the paint “rest” in between the lines of wax. This gives you some really fun options for color mixing and dimension with the watercolors

The workbench and stacks of projects underway.

And here they are–some of the finished pieces. I absolutely love this technique. Next I’m going to try some of these with white wax paint to get a totally different look!

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