This is the place to show and chat about all things Art …
This is one of my Encaustic art works : Sunset Windsurfer.
It is mounted in a double mount ready to mount …
http://folksy.com/items/5580921-Windsurfer-Sunset-Double-mounted-original-encaustic-art-painting
This is lovely. Until I moved to the coast a couple of years ago I’d have thought you were being imaginative with your colours, but I now know that the sea and sky really do come in an amazing variety of hues!
Can I ask what encaustic means? I’ve seen it often, I’ve googled, but I really don’t “get” it. don’t go into trade secret details of course!
Good morning all, I like how easy it is to post a listing on here, so to celebrate, here’s one of my favourites:
http://folksy.com/items/4402546-7-x5-Giclee-Fine-Art-Print-St-Paul-s-Cathedral
Though I must admit it comes without the frame!
Hi Heather
I do use a bit of my imagination in the sunsets, my style is a bit impressionist too 
Encaustic actually means to “burn in” from the Greek translation …
But when used here as Encaustic Art, it means this is painted in a special wax (encaustic) paint … I use heat tools to heat up the wax and paint it on with hot irons and stylus tools … it is amazing to work with, the sheen when I have finished a piece and polished it is wonderful. They can be, but don’t need to be framed, I sell a lot of small ones postcard size especially which sit on a mini easel, I sell them either hard backed or mounted so they have structure as the wax has a great texture in some of my pieces too …
I have some online videos of me painting if you would like to see how I do it … http://www.artinwax.co.uk/encaustic-art-demonstrations.php
I’m working on one of these today
@SianFolksy that was an attempt to do a clickable picture with the same code as before…didn’t work very well as you can see the code - should I do something different?
Looks like you’ve just got an extra bit of code underneath the first image? But there’s an easier way to post clickable images now 
I’m glad you asked, I was wondering about that yesterday!
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I hope my explanation above explains Encaustic OK
Hazel
Posting something from my other shop and testing the clickable link…
Well that seems to have worked nicely, thanks @SianFolksy and Discourse! 
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OK this is one of my Encaustic Art postcard size … I am trying out the image with a link, hope it works
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Helen that is lovely 
Thank you Hazel! This is from my new proper grown up shop 
And now I must be away down to my shed to make more things to put in it, but I will check back in at lunchtime to see what’s going on.
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Just experimenting with this direct link posting thingy…
Ah, good stuff, that actually works well, and is a lot easier than the old forum…
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I am liking this new forum, I have just had a sale as a direct result of posting here today
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Congrats Hazel
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Practising clickable links…
excellent explanation, thank you. I tried to reply earlier but got locked out again, I’m back now! Thoroughly recommend watching Hazel’s videos, it’s fascinating - and I can’t wait to receive my purchase!!
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guilty as charged! I’m usually very restrained in my purchasing, but your video about the process was so enticing.
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