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mix, perhaps significantly if you want it to. Keep good records to repeat something you
really like.
To use the prepared medium, melt several colors on the bottom of the iron and blend
on the upturned iron surface to make new colors or color smears. Make designs on pa-
per or other material with the tip or heel of the iron, or use the point to thin a portion
and lighten the color. Use the stylus to make line art of various colors on plain paper,
or to add lines of different colors to a background. Or, lay down a solid color and etch
designs or shapes with the stylus, the point of the iron, or another pointed object.
We could do a whole topic on techniques, tools, and materials, but this should get
you started. Be creative, have fun, and enjoy yet another use of this most unique bee-
hive product, beeswax.
Melt pigmented resin on the bottom of an encaustic iron, then using that iron to make
designs on paper, board, rice paper, watercolor paper, canvas, and more.
A beekeeping-themed encaustic painting by Ellen Harnish
