I mentioned to a few people the last time I posted that I was going to do a series of encaustic paintings like the Rusted Circles piece I posted last time. Once I had the technique down, I was able to finish these other two pretty fast, though I do still need some practice with the rust. I used the same steel wool I had used for the other pieces, and since the rust had already developed the residue that accumulated on the wax surface of my pieces was much more powdery than the first one I had done. I had to rub the powder rust around a bit to make sure it would stay permanent and not fall off gradually. It ended up looking quite different- I’m actually tempted to try it again and see what another layer would do…
I did add another element this time around- some watch gears that are embedded at different depths in the wax. Pretty awesome. :)
