I have about a dozen of roughly 12"x12" braced masonite panels, and will use them for "practice", trying to use a whole range of techniques. I bought a pad of acid free Canson Watercolor Paper, that will be glued to the panels using acid free YES glue, and trimmed with a blade.
Some panels will be worked on with pencil, ink, crayons, watercolor, and collage before the first coat of wax is applied. Some backgrounds can be tinted with a solid base color, some with patterns, or distressed.
Some panels may be partly painted with wax, and then with ink or watercolor, in a process similar to Batik.
Others may be painted directly with wax. Wood glue or shellac may be burnt with a torch to create patterns. Color tissue, cut or torn, may be used for collage and encased in wax. The wax surface can be carved, scratched, grooved, scored, and the lines filled with oil sticks or wax. It can be rubbed with pigments, pastels, oil paints.
For the first panel, I started with a few black and red pencil lines on the paper, used a circle stencil to lay down a thin red wax circle that I scraped back, applied several layers of yellow beeswax over the entire panel, scratched and scored it, scraped the surface back, scored a circle with a large set of points, filled the catches with black and red oil sticks, and wiped the excess off with paper towels, used my finger to rub oil paint into the surface, fused the surface, and highly buffed the whole thing.
For the third panel, I used watercolor paper, laid the black line with india ink using tape, painted the yellow and red ochre with watercolors, and laid several coats of fused medium while sprinkling dry pigments. The black inverted nude image was printed on Japanese paper, cut out, laid in soft sticky wax, burnished, and covered with a couple of coats of fused medium. Finally, I covered most of the surface with red shellac, burnt it, and used the torch to fuse it in:
For the fourth panel, I first coated the watercolor paper wit medium and fused it, laid japanese black and yellow paper into the soft wax, rubbed them in with my fingers, covered the tissue with several coats of fused medium, adding three little black squares on top of the yellow paper, and scraping the wax. The black paper had small newspaper inclusions, and since one of them was red, I rubbed the Yellow area with a red oil stick and wiped most of it off leaving red paint in the scratches and pits:
For the fifth panel, I first drew circles in pencil, then scorched the paper with the torch, burnt black spots, painted red shellac over and set it on fire. Only then did I put several coats of medium and fused them. I used a very small scraping tool attached to a large set of points to groove the circles lines back down to the paper surface. The grooves were filled wit black and red wax and scraped back level, creating clear sharp lines. I finally painted red shellac on some areas between the lines and burnt it, and fused the whole surface lightly with the torch:
Some panels will be worked on with pencil, ink, crayons, watercolor, and collage before the first coat of wax is applied. Some backgrounds can be tinted with a solid base color, some with patterns, or distressed.
Some panels may be partly painted with wax, and then with ink or watercolor, in a process similar to Batik.
Others may be painted directly with wax. Wood glue or shellac may be burnt with a torch to create patterns. Color tissue, cut or torn, may be used for collage and encased in wax. The wax surface can be carved, scratched, grooved, scored, and the lines filled with oil sticks or wax. It can be rubbed with pigments, pastels, oil paints.
For the first panel, I started with a few black and red pencil lines on the paper, used a circle stencil to lay down a thin red wax circle that I scraped back, applied several layers of yellow beeswax over the entire panel, scratched and scored it, scraped the surface back, scored a circle with a large set of points, filled the catches with black and red oil sticks, and wiped the excess off with paper towels, used my finger to rub oil paint into the surface, fused the surface, and highly buffed the whole thing.
For the second panel, I first wrote "Carpe Diem" multiple times in colored pencil on the white paper, then laid a yellow watercolor background, covered it with several fused coats of medium, scratched lines in the surface with a stylus, rolled a dotted line with a toothed wheel, filled the grooves with oil paint, made pools of red shellac and set them on fire, fused, laid another layer of medium, fused, and finally rubbed the whole surface with a red oil stick and wiped it off, leaving red scratches and pits:
For the third panel, I used watercolor paper, laid the black line with india ink using tape, painted the yellow and red ochre with watercolors, and laid several coats of fused medium while sprinkling dry pigments. The black inverted nude image was printed on Japanese paper, cut out, laid in soft sticky wax, burnished, and covered with a couple of coats of fused medium. Finally, I covered most of the surface with red shellac, burnt it, and used the torch to fuse it in:
For the fourth panel, I first coated the watercolor paper wit medium and fused it, laid japanese black and yellow paper into the soft wax, rubbed them in with my fingers, covered the tissue with several coats of fused medium, adding three little black squares on top of the yellow paper, and scraping the wax. The black paper had small newspaper inclusions, and since one of them was red, I rubbed the Yellow area with a red oil stick and wiped most of it off leaving red paint in the scratches and pits:
For the fifth panel, I first drew circles in pencil, then scorched the paper with the torch, burnt black spots, painted red shellac over and set it on fire. Only then did I put several coats of medium and fused them. I used a very small scraping tool attached to a large set of points to groove the circles lines back down to the paper surface. The grooves were filled wit black and red wax and scraped back level, creating clear sharp lines. I finally painted red shellac on some areas between the lines and burnt it, and fused the whole surface lightly with the torch:
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