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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. Here's a combination picture that's combining
a few different elements. Now, we've talked before about using the pancake griddle. Well,
that has that technique in here as long as the upper part has the Kleenex dabbing to
soften the background, some of the stylus work in the foreground. But there's a couple
elements in there I want to talk to you about. I'm not afraid to use different techniques.
And if you'll notice the butterflies, for instance, those are not drawn. I've taken
some rub-on transfers that you can purchase at any of the craft stores. And what's nice
is that when they're rubbed on, you can't see the edge of the print. And all you have
to do is take and rub the front side and get a nice, heavy press against the image and
that's going to lift right off onto your surface and that's how I did the butterflies in that
picture. The other element in there that's a little different is the image that I created
with the dragonflies. Here's another interesting idea you can use. You can take a rubber stamp
and use a glue stamp instead of an ink stamp and put your rubber stamp image onto your
surface. So, you can't even see that. But if you took a powdered--I use an iridescent
powder and just tap some of the iridescent powder over that image. And it'll pick up
on the glue and then you'd have to rub off the excess. And you have an image in that
iridescent powder. Just another nice, little technique to put in a picture that I think
is just a little different.