Bonnie has been a Golden Acrylics Working Artist for years and as such, knows just about all there is to know about the bewildering array of Golden acrylic mediums and products. Bonnie explained how she often builds up many layers of acrylic medium on her paintings...and that consequently her paintings are often mistaken for encaustics.
Bonnie brought in a wide variety of paints and mediums for us to try and showed us which types of acrylic mediums are best for creating that desired encaustic translucent look. We each worked on several paintings at a time, building many, many layers.
Since the class I've experimented with using this encaustic effect on the background of my figurative collages. I collage a photocopy of a figurative drawing over the "encaustic" background and possibly add other collage elements as well.
Here a few examples -
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