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therealbradu In reply to C-O-N-E-C-O [2013-06-17 03:56:04 +0000 UTC]

I light a big fat candle, and hold each candle over the flame. That melts it long enough for me to get 1 good swipe or drip of color. Then for the background, I use the drippings from the big candle that was lit. Looks like I used a few different colors on the background in this one, but most of them I only used black.

I haven't done one of these in possibly 10 years...but I do think it's a method I'll get back to as some point because I really enjoyed it and it's more unique than most of what I do.

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C-O-N-E-C-O In reply to therealbradu [2013-06-17 05:20:49 +0000 UTC]

Nice technique! Did a generic melted crayon creation today for practise, was fun. Will def revisit and maybe incorporate this technique

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therealbradu In reply to C-O-N-E-C-O [2013-06-18 23:40:04 +0000 UTC]

Cool, glad you gave it a shot. One word of advice, I learned the hard way that the candle drippings don't 'stick' as well as the crayon, at least on the support I was using. Had a painting damaged in the mail, where the background had chipped off during shipping but the figure (done in crayon) remained.

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therealbradu In reply to Retronator [2012-07-09 18:50:46 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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therealbradu In reply to PerfectCrime1 [2012-06-16 04:08:53 +0000 UTC]

One of Fedor's finest moments, surviving that monster slam and winning seconds later! Thanks for the comment

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therealbradu In reply to RebeccaGraphics07 [2012-06-16 04:09:15 +0000 UTC]

thanks for the props...your link didn't work though

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