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I’ve finally carved out a niche in my outside studio to play around with encaustic wax!! (Happy dance here.) It’s summertime, so I can throw the doors and windows open to keep the studio well ventilated. I just need to make sure no critters get caught inside! (On acreage in the middle of the forest, this is a real challenge.)<\/p>\n

Also on my list of things to try out is creating prints by pounding flowers into either fabric or paper. And in keeping with my non-linear, crazy mind these days, I’ll throw in a smattering of plaster to mix things up even more.\u00a0 The options are growing exponentially as I write.<\/p>\n

I had a damaged wooden board stained with indigo India ink, cast off from a failed project. This would be perfect to start my foray back into the world of encaustic wax. Blue = sky, easy beginning; and I love flowers, so there you go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Here are some detailed shots:<\/p>\n

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That was soooo much fun! But that’s just the beginning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I have a large bare spot on one of the walls in our cobalt blue tiled bathroom. Unfortunately, the first piece is a horizontal panel, and I needed a perpendicular panel to fill the void. So on to the next experimental art adventure I go.<\/p>\n

We are in the middle of a pandemic, thus I am trying to use things I have on hand. Since I didn’t have a correct size wooden panel, I ripped leftover drop cloth into the size I wanted, and added a layer of plaster of Paris to the front (let it dry) and then the back of the cloth. I had seen this done by Jeanne Oliver<\/a> for smaller journal pages. Perhaps this isn’t the best thing for a larger panel like I’m making as it may crack or break fairly easily, but I forged on ahead knowing that it’s just for me, and on the wall, and I’m pretty careful.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n

What shall I put on this panel? I have been vying to try hammered flower cloth. What, you ask, is hammered flower cloth? Take flowers and hammer them into cloth. I used a very thin, woven, cotton muslin type cloth. I went around my yard and gathered a variety of flowers to try.<\/p>\n

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I layered a piece of paper underneath, added the thin cloth, arranged the flowers on the cloth, covered the flowers with parchment paper, and used a rubber mallet to hammer the flowers into the cloth. The parchment paper allowed me to faintly see where the flowers and colors were transferring onto the fabric, helping me create a more cohesive design. I went in after the first pass and added more flowers and greenery where it was needed. The bottom layer of paper had a faint ghost print from the color that seeped out from the fabric. You could use this paper for a mixed media piece, or attach it into your journal, or whatever you like.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here is the cloth panel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I won’t wash this. If you wanted to use this technique on a washable item, you would need to treat the fabric before and after doing the flower pounding. Since I knew this was for the wall and wouldn’t be washed, I used untreated fabric.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To attach this fabric onto the plaster substrate I used encaustic wax. I laid the fabric onto the plaster panel and added a layer of encaustic wax on top of the flower print. The wax soaked into the thin cloth and down into the plaster. I am hoping the encaustic wax will not only act as a binder, but also help to seal in the color of the flowers and keep it from fading.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here’s a portion of the cloth before the encaustic wax was applied.<\/p>\n

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And after the wax was applied.<\/p>\n

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And here’s the same area after I added some darker encaustic wax accents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Sweet peas on fabric.<\/p>\n

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Sweet peas after clear and some white encaustic wax.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Here are close ups of areas with the darker encaustic wax and some indigo colored wax details added. I wanted a little of that indigo\/cobalt color of the bathroom tiles in the piece.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I left the edges rough, but felt it was a little too rustic. I had leather straps that I added to the piece by stitching a loop and hanging them onto the copper tubing I used to hang the piece by.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The leather covers the rough edges on the longer sides and makes the piece look cleaner. I used a piece of wire as a hanger, but wanted to obscure it a bit so I added a few pussy willow branches to the top.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I like how the plain plaster is still visible at the top and bottom of the piece.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I learned a lot by just playing around with materials I had on hand, trying to make do. I’m happy to have a piece of art to hang in the bare spot of the bathroom. I hope you give the flower printing a try. It’s very easy. There are all sorts of tutorials on Youtube showing different methods. I even saw that some people used rocks to pound the plant materials into the fabric.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Happy summer, everyone!<\/p>\n

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