Hello creative friends! Sometimes the projects I make involve lots of different mediums and take me a few days to create, and sometimes I just want to make a relatively quick and simple project! Finnabair waxes are perfect for this as they take seconds to apply, are permanent when dry and there’s a huge range of colours to choose from!
I started with an old tin and used a stencil to create the base background. I then started layering mould pieces on top- if I know that I will be adding quite a few elements then I usually do a bottom layer and gesso over this then apply the rest of the elements in a second layer. This way it’s easier to make sure all the underneath areas and awkward bits have some gesso on them!
Once everything had dried I started applying the waxes. I used Electric Violet and Emerald as base colours and then applied Indian Pink, Sky Glass and Acid over different areas to highlight the details. I like to alternate the direction I apply the waxes in to make sure I’m not going over the same areas all the time and it also gives the elements a different colour shimmer depending on which way you look at it.
To pick out some of the details I watered down some Brass Hardware acrylic paint and added this to areas of the tin then used Burnt Sienna liquid acrylic paint to create some areas of shadow.
You can see the full process video here:
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