Encaustics; Photo Transfer on Glass Craft Party

Yesterday Margaret Hluch taught her very popular class, Encaustics and Photo Transfer to a sold out group! We started the day with prepping our encaustic boards with heat and a few layers of wax.

 

 

Next was the difficult task of choosing our collage materials to create our composition. Too many pretty choices!

 

We chose our pictures and photo transferred them onto various papers or fabrics.  It's always magical to lift back the paper and see the transferred image!

 

 

 

 

 

And here are the beautiful finished results!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Encaustic Trading Cards Craft Party

 Last night we had fun making a mess doing encaustics!  We have done this class before but this time we made 5 mini collages so that people could have more experimentation in design and technique. Margaret Hluch showed us the basics of encaustics and we got right to it!

 We also got to incorporate photo transfers into the collages.  We transferred onto various fabrics & papers.

 This class was so much fun as you can see by the piles of materials!

 The finished pieces!  Take a look- they all turned out great!

Encaustics; Photo Transfer on Fabric with Pastels & Colored Pencils Craft Party

Yesterday Margaret Hluch taught Encaustics using photo transfers & colored pencils! Even though we have done this class before, it's always fun to see how everyone approaches their compositions and images!

We got started on learning the specifics of how to do encaustics....

 Then we learned how to take our photographs and transfer them.  We also learned about all of the different ways to change the images before and after this process...

And then it was time to have fun and play with the images and collage elements!

Here are some of the final results!

Encaustic Collage Craft Party!

 Yesterday we had a full class for the encaustic collage craft party!  Margaret Hluch teaches this class that is always a popular one!  Encaustics is a technique of collaging and layering with hot wax. 

 Using photo transfers and adding fiber elements make the collage unique and personal.  The results looked great!  This class always fills up quickly so keep your eyes out for the next encaustic class if you are interested in learning this fun technique!