Saturday, October 2, 2010

Supply list... so far.

  • White refined beeswax
  • Damar crystals
  • Pancake griddle for heating up my pigments and also to be used as a palette.
  • Cupcake sheet, for making my pigment cakes.
  • Little 2.5 oz steel/aluminum containers, for mixing pigment on my burner.
  • Heat gun, for fusing together wax layers and to enable me to rework areas on my surface.
  • Thermometer, encaustic paint needs to maintain and not exceed a certain temperature (this will be a separate post eventually).
  • 20 different dry pigments.
Things I need:
  • Hog bristles, lots of them.  I read that you should have different brushes for different hues...reds, greens, blues and such...so as not to contaminate the different pigments.  No synthetic brushes, they will melt!
  • Pots with the pouring lip.
  • Wooden mixers, someone suggested stealing the coffee stirrers from *bucks...a life of thievery it is!
  • Oh yes and painting surfaces of course.

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