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"I dearth to use wax crayons in my paintings but am not positive how. I was told that I couldn’t do that." One of my students asked me this at our last interview. I assured her that there absolutely is no such thing as a inequitable or right media, only compatible or irreconcilable ways of using substances. So I reflection of a way that wax crayons might act with oil paint and set about to experiment on some panels with my scholar. I mixed the hollow cylinder paint with a combination beeswax and damar lacquer medium and used a palette knife to trowel this hard to lift-bodied coloring matter onto the panel. I then broke off pieces of wax crayons and dropped them into the paint.
"We’ll caloric up the paint with a hair desiccative set on high caloric and see if the beeswax in the paint melts with the pencil so that it adheres." I reported as I ran upstairs to get a of great altitude powered salon-diction blow desiccative that I recently inherited from my pace-mother. When I got back down to the workshop, I enthusiastically set it on elevated speed and blew a serviceable many of the wax crayons off the array. So by trial and inaccuracy we discovered that the knock drier had to be set on low initially to slowly make soft the wax so that it would have a tack to it before dissolving it into the beeswax-laden paint. The little silver, red and verdant dots of pencil fragments melded curiously into the pigments and we discovered a new way of construction what I would like to call faux encaustic. I then sent my scholar on her way with a dollop of the beeswax and damar.
Afterwards I was confronted with this tiny demonstrator faux encaustic coloring that I wasn’t completely certain what to do with. I then remembered...

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