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JOHN VANDEBROOKE: This is John Vandebrooke on behalf of Expert Village. Today, we're
going to talk about advanced encaustic painting. Looking at that picture, you can see that
there's all kinds of different embellishments in that painting. And I thought I'd just show
you a couple ideas that I have in there. For one, it's got a lot of gels, transparent gels
that I have painted on top of the wax and they come in art stores different--there's
transparent, then there's marbled effects on the different gels and I've used that,
painted it on top of the wax and on some cases there, I've actually dusted that when it was
wet with some metallic powders just to get some different looks. So, this is one thing
that's in there. Another thing that is kind of interesting is that I took a DVD like this.
I took an embossing gun and I heated the DVD and once you heat that DVD, you can then take
a pair of scissors and actually cut that DVD up like that. So, once you have a piece of
that DVD cut out, you could then take a rubber stamp. And you could stamp an image on that
DVD like this. Now, there's an image of this half face on that DVD. I could cut that out
more so as a square like it's shown on that painting up there. And then on top of that,
I could take some heavy embossing powder and I could melt it in a melting pot like this
here. And once it was all melted, I could take the melted fluid and pour it on top of
the DVD to create a totally different effect on top and then I set that into the painting.
So, that's just one of the many effects on this painting that I thought I would talk
to you about.