A Guide to Encaustic Wax Painting using R&F Encaustic Wax with Lyn Kirkland | Jackson's Art

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Lyn Kirkland is a professional artist and brand ambassador for R&F. She visited the Jackson's Studio to demonstrate how she paints with R&F Encaustic Wax and Pigment Sticks. In this film, Lyn takes us through the tools and equipment needed to get started with encaustic wax painting. She also explains how she creates texture and depth in her artworks by building up layers of wax alongside other materials, such as inks, mica powders and pan pastels. View R&F on our website: https://www.jacksonsart.com/brands/r-f?utm_campaign=in_conversation_with_lyn_kirkland&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_content=youtube_social_organic_video_to_ecom 0:00 Introduction 0:39 Why Dammar is used in Encaustic Medium 1:00 Why Lyn loves working with R&F Paints and Pigments 1:26 Brief history of Encaustic Wax 1:51 What you need to start painting with Encaustic Wax 3:20 Surfaces can you use to paint on with Encaustic Wax 4:37 Using Encaustic Wax with other mediums - Alcohol Inks, Mica Powder, PanPastels, Gold Leaf, Metallic Paper 5:21 Tools you can use with Encaustic Wax 5:56 Preparing your panel for Encaustic Painting 6:33 Taping the edges of the panel 6:58 Warming the panel 7:50 Applying wax to the panel 8:08 Fusing the wax 10:10 Reworking a part finished panel with Encaustic paint 11:23 Subtracting Layers 11:47 Adding Alcohol Ink 12:45 Techniques for adding texture - Embedding silk and incising lines 15:19 Accretion / Dry Brushing Technique 16:49 Using Dry Pigment / Mica Powder 17:14 Using stencils with PanPastel on an Encaustic panel 17:54 Cleaning up brushes 18:42 Advantages of Encaustic Wax Painting 20:02 Caring for your Encaustic Painting 21:02 Properties of R&F Pigment Sticks 21:38 Differences between R&F Pigment Sticks and traditional paint bars 21:55 Applying, blending and drawing with R&F Pigment Sticks #painting #pigments #jacksonsart