🎥 Title: Making Florals Pop with R&F Pigment Sticks over Encaustic This encaustic painting started with lush layers of blue and green wax. After fusing a veil of white overtop, I uncovered a marbled floral hidden within... Then I brought it to life with R&F Pigment Sticks—vivid, buttery, and full of impact. @rfpaints #encausticpainting #rfpigmentsticks #encausticflorals #waxlayers #mixedmediacolour #shorts

Join me for a peek inside my art journal, where the lines of nature become the heart of my sketches. 🌿 It’s not about copying—it’s about noticing, and letting those observations shape something new. #artjournal #naturedrawing #observationalart #intuitiveart #visualjournaling #shorts

Watch this handmade accordion book come alive with sweeping India ink brushstrokes and layers of encaustic wax. It’s all about movement, freedom, and letting the ink and wax guide the way. Go here for more info: https://www.sharybartlett.newzenler.com #accordionbook #encausticpainting #indiainkart #loosegestures #markmaking #shorts

Think clay tools can't be used with wax? Watch how @diamondcoretools cleanly carve through layers of encaustic! Every cut reveals colour, texture, and a story beneath the surface. It's like drawing with a blade—and the wax responds beautifully. Go here for more info: https://www.sharybartlett.newzenler.com #encausticpainting #encausticcarving #diamondcoretools #artprocess #layeredencaustic #shorts

A small excerpt from my video lesson on creating a smooth surfaceencaustic surface - a challenging thing to do! But it’s a perfect foundation for photographs, mixed media materials, watercolour paintings, and collage. Check out the many ways that you can create a smooth wax surface with ease and perfection every time. Look on my FB or IG channels, under my name to see full screen. thx. #Smooth #SmoothArt #SmoothenCausticWax #Encaustic #EncausticPainting #MixMediaPainting #EncausticTips#Wax #Waxing #WaxingPoetic

Add a little metallic sparkle to your Alcohol ink and Encaustic paintings. Gold ink especially contrasts with the intense hues and translucent allure of the inks. I love how they sparkle when dropped into wet coloured ink. Fun fact: metallic alcohol inks are pigment-based, so completely archival.•⁠ •⁠ #SharyBartlett #fluidartwork #alcoholink #alcoholinkart #alcoholinkartist #alcoholinkarts #abstractart #Shorts

My encaustic collage often begins with flowing, intuitive watercolour—but then I love adding geometric contrast. That tension between loose and precise gives the work its energy. 🎨 Want to explore this intuitive creative approach? Check out my online course Beginner’s Mind: https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/beginners-mind #encausticart #watercolourfoundation #beginnersmind #creativecontrast #shorts

I've been reading and thinking a lot about liminal space. This is a hopeful reflection on those creative times when we feel "in between" by Alice Walker. "Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening...It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.⁠ —Alice Walker,⁠ Living by the Word⁠ •⁠ •⁠ •⁠ •⁠ ⁠ •⁠ •⁠ •⁠ •⁠ •⁠ #SharyBartlett #creativity #livingtheartistlife #Inspiration ⁠

This abstract concertina book was painted by hand using flowing inks—each panel unfolding like a breath of colour and movement. Want to make your own and add encaustic wax for even more depth and beauty? Learn how in my online course: 🔗 https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/infinity-and-beyond #concertinabook #encausticpainting #handmadebook #inkart #artistbook #abstractpainting