Encaustic bowl by Annie Desantis

Copperlime Encaustic Bowl

My encaustic bowls are handcrafted from paper clay, using recycled paper, layered with wax, pigments, papers, found objects . . . anything!

Encaustic bowl by Annie Desantis
Encaustic Bowl ~ Copperlime ~ approx 8.5cm diameter
by Annie Desantis

This Copperlime bowl stands approx 3.5cm high, with a 8.5cm diameter. Encaustic wax – which is hot beeswax mixed with damar resin and pigments, is layered over inks, pigments, images and objects.

This bowl has two copper nails inserted, and a curl of fine copper wire recycled from old speakers. Marks have been sgraffito’d into the surface. Sgraffito is a technique of scratching back into the under-layers of a piece to reveal the layers beneath. Pigments are also rubbed in to highlight the mark making.

Images and paper have also been layered into this piece.

Encaustic bowl by Annie Desantis
Encaustic Bowl ~ Outside Copperlime ~ approx 8.5cm diameter
by Annie Desantis

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