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| This is one of my hobbies.
I have been painting with encaustic wax now
for about six years and I still try to fit
the occasional one in amongst my hectic schedule.
Encaustic means "To Burn In" ...
this is the process of applying molten wax
colours to a surface for the creation of images,
decoration and so forth. It started over two
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| No one can say
for sure exactly what the components
of the wax paints were since there are
several formulae and a number of application
techniques discovered for the creation
of the original Roman / Egyptian wax
portraits. The wax needs to be applied
with some swiftness which would certainly
make sense if the wax was molten and
liable to cool on the brush if not handled
with some speed. |
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