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A basic outline of how to get a beeswax finish to your collage.
Beeswax adds wonderful depth and translucency (and smells like warm summer days!).
You can build up as many layers as you like, and can include color by melting shavings from wax crayons into the finish.
Beeswax also replaces glue, so you can adhere additional elements by melting them into the surface with an extra layer of wax. Best of all, if you mess up, you can re-heat the wax and remove the element you added.
Experiment with depth of finish - you can always scrape off the wax if it's too opaque once it cools.
NB: Ink and other water- or alcohol-based media will not adhere to the beeswax, so use all these media first, before taking out your iron.
Example of a beeswax-finished collage:
Beeswax adds wonderful depth and translucency (and smells like warm summer days!).
You can build up as many layers as you like, and can include color by melting shavings from wax crayons into the finish.
Beeswax also replaces glue, so you can adhere additional elements by melting them into the surface with an extra layer of wax. Best of all, if you mess up, you can re-heat the wax and remove the element you added.
Experiment with depth of finish - you can always scrape off the wax if it's too opaque once it cools.
NB: Ink and other water- or alcohol-based media will not adhere to the beeswax, so use all these media first, before taking out your iron.
Example of a beeswax-finished collage:
Image size
1500x4074px 3.36 MB
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Great tutorial, thank you for sharing.