Comments on: Encaustics & Collage http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html Joyce Hill is an artist living and working in Buffalo, NY Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:33:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: joyce http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html/comment-page-1#comment-68 joyce Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:32:01 +0000 http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html#comment-68 Leslie, Hi again. Answers to your questions are...I use acrylic gel mediums for gluing my collage elements to my paper and foam core. I also, after the work is finished, adding a top clear coat of gel medium gloss to give a finished look to all the papers and objects in my composition. It is a great product in general and archival also unlike regular glue which will yellow. I use foam core on board glued then watercolor paper on top of the foam core. I can carve out the foam core if I choose but still have a watercolor paper to paint on as a surface. If you have not seen Randels Plowman's book, which I am in, called Masters/Collage I would check it out. There are forty artists in it with different styles of collage. Amazon or Barnes & Noble is carrying the book. Good luck with your work! Leslie, Hi again. Answers to your questions are…I use acrylic gel mediums for gluing my collage elements to my paper and foam core. I also, after the work is finished, adding a top clear coat of gel medium gloss to give a finished look to all the papers and objects in my composition. It is a great product in general and archival also unlike regular glue which will yellow. I use foam core on board glued then watercolor paper on top of the foam core. I can carve out the foam core if I choose but still have a watercolor paper to paint on as a surface. If you have not seen Randels Plowman’s book, which I am in, called Masters/Collage I would check it out. There are forty artists in it with different styles of collage. Amazon or Barnes & Noble is carrying the book. Good luck with your work!

]]> By: Leslie van der Heide http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html/comment-page-1#comment-65 Leslie van der Heide Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:44:23 +0000 http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html#comment-65 Dear Joyce, I found you thru Randal Plowman. I am very interested in collage. I live in the Netherlands in the country where workshops are few if any. The Dec. 29th post says working with acrylic gels and mediums and comparing this to encaustics. Do you mean a top coat of a gel like a top coat of wax on top of paper? Also, do you use a foam base instead of an adhesive for your papers? What is this product and where do you buy it? Thank you, Leslie Dear Joyce,
I found you thru Randal Plowman. I am very interested in collage. I live in the Netherlands in the country where workshops are few if any.
The Dec. 29th post says working with acrylic gels and mediums and comparing this to encaustics. Do you mean a top coat of a gel like a top coat of wax on top of paper?

Also, do you use a foam base instead of an adhesive for your papers?
What is this product and where do you buy it?
Thank you,
Leslie

]]> By: Patti Harris http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html/comment-page-1#comment-56 Patti Harris Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:08:19 +0000 http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html#comment-56 You're good. Your new work is gorgeous! Can't wait til we get together in Feb. some time. You’re good. Your new work is gorgeous! Can’t wait til we get together in Feb. some time.

]]> By: joyce http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html/comment-page-1#comment-54 joyce Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:07:51 +0000 http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html#comment-54 Yes thank you Peter! You are right about the acrylic gels and mediums which I do use now. However this past summer I took an encaustics workshop and learned a lot about using wax and collage. The effects you get with gel are great but with encaustics you get a slightly different result. There is a beauty to the object or collage encased in the wax that has a different quality. I am especially interested in the use with japanese rice papers. I am going to write a blog about this tomorrow and maybe you will get a feel for what my goal is with this medium. I hope you keep reading my blog and progress in adding this method with my m/m work. Yes thank you Peter! You are right about the acrylic gels and mediums which I do use now. However this past summer I took an encaustics workshop and learned a lot about using wax and collage. The effects you get with gel are great but with encaustics you get a slightly different result. There is a beauty to the object or collage encased in the wax that has a different quality. I am especially interested in the use with japanese rice papers. I am going to write a blog about this tomorrow and maybe you will get a feel for what my goal is with this medium. I hope you keep reading my blog and progress in adding this method with my m/m work.

]]> By: Peter http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html/comment-page-1#comment-53 Peter Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:45:19 +0000 http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html#comment-53 Joyce I followed you here form Tracy's site. this is the best mixed media work I've seen. I love the textures, compositions, and colors you get. Your opening slide show is very nice. I love every one of them. I don't know much about encaustics, but it seems you might get a similar look with matt or semi gloss acrylic mediums and gells? Joyce I followed you here form Tracy’s site. this is the best mixed media work I’ve seen. I love the textures, compositions, and colors you get. Your opening slide show is very nice. I love every one of them. I don’t know much about encaustics, but it seems you might get a similar look with matt or semi gloss acrylic mediums and gells?

]]> By: Patti Harris http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html/comment-page-1#comment-50 Patti Harris Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:27:09 +0000 http://joycehillstudio.com/dscn2040.html#comment-50 You go girl! This is fascinating!!!! patti and the letters on the CAPTCHA phrase don't work....if this goes through it is because I listened to it and it was completely different from what I saw!!! You go girl! This is fascinating!!!! patti

and the letters on the CAPTCHA phrase don’t work….if this goes through it is because I listened to it and it was completely different from what I saw!!!

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