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JOHN VANDEBROOKE: This is John Vandebrooke and on behalf of Expert Village, I am inviting
you to take a look at our series of intermediate stages of encaustic painting. Now, I started
cutting up little patterns, making little small art pieces out of cut-up pieces of wax
paper, and I thought, "Well, why can't I do this on a large scale?" So, I laid out a pattern,
cut it up, and then began to wax the separate sections. Now, in this case, I took this kimono
dress or Chinese dress, and laid out, cut out the different sections, and then waxed
each sections separately. And then in the center section, I not only waxed it, but I
laid, again, Kleenex on top of it and soaked the Kleenex into the--combined it with wax
and some metallic waxes to get this look here. The background in here, again, was wax with
tissue paper to give it that softer look. And then just to add an interesting little
touch, I went and got some of that soft children's play material, it's a lot like a soft paper
product, made little squares and then took a rubber stamp, stamped that little prosperity
symbol or wealth symbol into the paper to create that little image in the different
areas. So, this idea of making patterns and expanding them is something really interesting
to think about.