Buried Treasure - Re-Posting a Mixed Media Painting

 this painting was entirely experimental........i have never seen an encaustic painting, only on tv & artist's blogs.
so when i came to a tutorial in the book - "Surface Treatment Workshop", explore 45 Mixed Media Techniques, by Darlene Olivia McElroy & Sandra Duran Wilson, queen of glue, & princess of paint for *faux encaustic* i gave it a try.

 first step: collage with torn green magazine paper on canvas......

added more collage & the image of the child......pressed bubble wrap into wet gel medium to create some texture & interest.....

 when it had dried added some crayon & acrylic paint........more floral collage.....then more paint glazes.....

 i didn't always like some of the colours when the paint had dried, so i just added a different colour until i was happy with it.
 i used transparent colours mixed with clear painting medium to make glazes as i didn't want to lose the layers.
as it was an experiment i didn't stress about it, in the end it all kinda blended together.

 pressed a rose stamp into more wet gel medium......then did the same with a leaf shape, added more layers of paint......

 each layer of collage, crayon & paint was covered with a mix of watered down gel medium, you can see it is still wet in this photo below......

 as each layer dried i continued to add more layers of  each medium until i thought it looked ok.

 i am not sure if it looks like * faux encaustic*, but i was happy with my first try.

 i can see layers going back to some of the collage,.....

& i like the texture created by this method.

so this is my contribution to "buried treasure" organized by Seth Apter, thealteredpage.
to see more please visit Seth's blog.
(raylee).