Roiling, Encaustic painting by Canadian artist Bente Hansen

Roiling, encaustic on Cedar Plank Panel 6x16  $125

This encaustic painting has plaster in the bottom dark areas.

I had been reading about an artist that found a way to use clay in her encaustic painting.  Since clay sometimes has a hard time attaching to clay I thought this to be a very complicated approach.  My thought was that if I used plaster, like the plaster that was used to set broken arms, and then added wax to the plaster on the hot plate then the plaster would attach to the bottom layer of wax.  It worked very well.  This way I could get the texture of rocks or anything needed to add height to the piece.

Blessings for an inspiring day.

Bente