Sandra Wilson

"Discover 45 innovative ways to use acrylic paints, mediums and a variety of mixed-media art supplies to achieve the look of encaustic without the wax or the heat usually required. Compose and create intriguing works of art with fun techniques that include creating crackles, carving with stencils, making wax-like elements, adding image transfers and so much more!,"--Amazon.com.

Explains how to use leftover pieces of art and scraps of art supplies to make imaginative new creations, with photographic instructions for fifty basic techniques, eighty additional "fast and easy" techniques, and photos of seventy finished pieces.

Provides you with techniques and ideas for mixed-media surface treatments. In addition to over 45 stepped-out techniques, projects that combine the techniques into finished works of art are shown as well. Traditional techniques as well as new applications that have not been explored in other books such as the use of WonderUnder, pulled paper and plaster-dipped gauze are explored. Extensive examples from both artists show how the same techniques can...