Can I mix certain paints with wax and heat up a canvas? What about melting down crayons with oil pastels? Should I add a mineral spirits medium and/or acrylic thinner or a resin?
2006-12-06 10:08:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
I don't know that much about encaustic but a good friend of mine does it. If your dealing with wax what you can do is melt up crayons as well as get coloring from the store. For encaustic I think you can get them in different colors. Yeah you can mix paints with wax as my friend did. I don't know about resin though.. won't the wax melt? What my friend did is she sprayed fixative all over it, thats all I know about encaustic. hope it helped.
2006-12-06 22:19:23 · answer #1 · answered by I AM LEY 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have to mix refined beeswax and damar resin with either a dry pigment or oil paint that has been left out to dry a little so it's less oily.
2015-06-29 09:27:19 · answer #2 · answered by fish 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋