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  1. dubesor Says:

    December 4, 2008 at 2:46 am

    Hi,

    I’m very interested in encaustic photography. From your post (http://allisonmillergallery.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/to-frame-or-not-to-frame/), sounds like you already have a very good understanding of it. Maybe you can give me some advice?

    My basic idea is: to mount a series of 12″x18″ photo prints onto 14″x18″ birch woodblocks, decorate/illustrate the 2″ of margins directly on the wood, and finally coat the whole thing with a super-thin layer of encaustic.

    I haven’t the slightest clue where to begin. Maybe you can shed some light on these questions:
    * Where does one buy encaustic/wax and is there a spectrum of price & quality?
    * Any special tricks to applying it (especially for a thin, uniform look)?
    * For the initial mounting of the print to a woodblock, what is a safe adhesive and gluing technique?

    If you find the time to answer, I would be very grateful!

    Thanks!

    Andriy Mishchenko
    Vancouver, Canada
    andriy@photic.ca
    http://www.photic.ca
    http://www.flickr.com/people/dubesor

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  2. allisonmillergallery Says:

    December 11, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    Hi Andriy,
    Thanks for checking out my blog. Beeswax can be purchased online from a many places but the best wax I’ve found is at R&F Paints. On their website they have a forum also where you can find lots of answers to just about anything.

    If your applying the wax to your photos you just brush the hot wax directly on in thin layers. Then fuse it into the paper with a heat gun very slowly. The trick is that the photo should be mounted to a wood panel and the photo paper must have some tooth to it, not slick. I’ve always printed on card stock and I don’t have any problems. The wax doesn’t have to be glued it will bond directly to the paper when cooled. Also the wax encapsulates the photo making it air tight and archival (added bonus!).

    After the wax is cool you can scrap it down as thin as you like. Be careful not to scrap into the photo though!

    My user name is Allison within the R&F Forum if you want to see some of my questions over the past couple of years during my learning process.

    Good luck!
    Allison

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