I have been painting with encaustic (hot bees wax) for almost 10 years now and wanted to try my hand at mono-printing with wax. When I was in art school I loved printmaking and especially mono-printing. It was so immediate and quick; I loved the way you could pull only one print (and maybe a ghost print if you were lucky) off of all that you had done and maybe it turned out and maybe it didn’t. I feel that same way with the encaustic mono-prints I’ve been working on lately. The paper is Canson Edition Printmaking paper and the Encaustic Wax is R&F Encaustic. The combination of the 2 is amazing together!
These 6 paintings were entered into a juried art show in Emeryville, California. I will find out the week of the 18th of July whether or not they got in.
I really enjoy this process and will keep painting this way along with my traditional encaustic painting.