Encaustic Wax Workshop for Maggie Grey’s WOW books

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Encaustic Wax Workshop for WOW Book Seven…

Well…. This feels like the longest awaited news everrrr….

But, at long last…

I have the hard copy of d4daisy’s WOW Book 07 in my hands…

and WOW… it was worth the 18 month wait…!!

It truly is a thing of beauty… It feels utterly AMAZING to finally have it here….

            

There are two reasons that it’s so exciting for me:

You can read the reasons around why the project took so long below….

But the excitement, more than the wait, is that I had searched for HOURS… high and low… to find any encaustic wax books and articles, which are nigh on impossible to find in the UK….

It’s why I eventually created my online courses, out of pure frustration at lack of resources…. This book, feels one step closer to helping encaustic to become more mainstream in the UK…

Aren’t those photographs dreamy….?!!   Make’s you want to get your waxes out right…?!!

See it for yourself…

You can order a signed copy through me… £26 + P&P… just e-mail julie@artyheaven.com to arrange.

Or, you can order online here:  https://www.d4daisy.com

Not only will you get the book, (which is available as a softback or pdf), you also get access to the WOWbook members club, which has additional online resources…   (from the regular contributors, not encaustic related resources currently.)

 

For the background of how the workshop article came about… and the reason for the delay…. read on below…

I was asked to write an encaustic wax workshop for Maggie Grey’s WOW (Workshop on the Web) books, published by d4daisy Books…  what feels like a lifetime ago…

I started the communications with the editor, paperwork in place, I’d drafted my first workshop revision… and then Covid hit…

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Photography for the article had to go on hold whilst the world ground to a halt…
We finally got to shooting the photographs for the workshop in July 2020…
WOW Book Photos for encaustic wax tutorial

I had created a very paired down tutorial of how to paint with wax… (that’s an entire book on its own!) and created a great first step introduction to wax and dammar encaustics for their readership…

I was delighted when they contacted me and asked if we could “add some more stages” to the workshop “as it was such a good technique!”

So, we arranged a second visit, and added some more steps!
I love watching the creative process, it was the first time I’ve worked with a publisher, so seeing the creative process of pulling a book together first hand has been fascinating.

We missed out on WOWbook Six, but was pleased to make it into WOWbook Seven…

I’d been sitting on the most amazing photographs, which I was itching to share, but wasn’t allowed until after the workshop release…
I did have permission to share an odd snippet and a few behind the scenes photos though…!
    Photography WOW Book Encaustic Workshop
    
I always said encaustic would catch on over here…  it will take more than a pandemic to stop us…! 😉
Supplies are getting more and more available, and being able to share through these kinds of publications will help tremendously.
Order your copy, or check out my online courses here!
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