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Encaustic Art BASICS online course

The EncausticHouse community seeks to meet, to share, to learn. Friendly and supportive. Try it!

Michael Bossom & Wemke de Jong run EncausticHouse & teach Encaustic Art with Iron, Stylus & Hotplate

The creative pathway offered by Encaustic Art is exciting, unpredictable, surprising and wonderful.

Iron abstracts are a good starting point and bring skill as well as attractive results.

Dimensional mark making with the iron is fast to achieve and very rewarding.

Each section (14) has an Inspiration gallery filled with images and ideas to stimulate you.

Simple iron repetition can teach control of the tool and be surprising in the result.

What looks so complex is just a matter of understanding the way to create the strokes.

Die cutting is brilliant with Encaustic Art.

Marquetry is not just for wood workers. Card cutting is very creative.

Developing a sense of colour harmony enriches results no end.

Putting wax on is not limited to the metal surfaces of the iron. Tissue offers tremendous potentials

Can't draw? Try colouring over. It will give you a massive push into better colour mixing abilities.

Rubber stamps? Why not? Polymer stamps too. Stamping create a message, a subject, a focus, meaning.

Rubber stamps with metallic wax onto black card - it rocks!

Fantasy castle reflections are a favourite and not so hard, even for total novices.

Depth, it's all in the way the image is structured. The Encaustic Art BASICS are a great beginning.

Basics first section is free! Learn exactly how it all works and how to approach your online course.

The Encaustic Art BASICS course uses video tutorials supported by Study Focus sections Easy to work.

Description

EncausticHouse is an online course platform where Encaustic Art is the focus of learning. The House is a community with a social interface so learners on the same courses can communicate and discuss if they choose to. Encaustic Art is focused on learning the basics of using the iron to melt waxes, create abstracts, patterns, landscapes, fantasy images, use with stamps and interweave with your own existing creative interests and skills. It's a lot of fun and creativity can be quite unexpected. You don't need to be able to paint or draw but it helps if you are open to the living moment - that is where creativity happens - in the present, within the process. If you are an Encaustic Art beginner then the Basics course will give you a fantastic platform. Michael Bossom has been a leading light within the wax melting world for more than 30 years. This Basics course is based on his twin DVD set and Book - Encaustic Art Basics. The EncausticHouse team are Michael and Wemke (from the Netherlands) who have created a wonderful and inspiring course.

What's included in the price?

Full access to the online course which is situated in a socially enabled environment. Meet and share as you learn, or simply work by yourself - it is up to you.