Melted Flowers

10 x 28

NeoColor wax on watercolor paper

 Roughing in NeoColors

 The yellows turn out to be a bad idea and changed to greens.

Here you can see me blending the colors on my Icarus Board http://icarusart.net/ I use Colour Shapers http://www.dickblick.com/products/colour-shapers-tools/

with grey tips, medium softness. You can also see the Swifter sweeper. It's to brush off debris. I find it leaves "hair" particles and quickly switched to an old unused synthetic paint brush. A drafting brush would work just as well.

The start of the flowers.

This picuter is from another project but shows how the flowers start. I use a pencil sharpener to get filings of different colors in piles. I let them heat on the Icarus Board, placed a sheet of tracing paper over them, then take a wooden pottery tool http://kruegerpottery.com/tools/handbuilding-tools/kemper-ja8-6-wood-modeling-tool.html

and spread the melted wax like butter from the middle out to form petals. This blends and mixes the colors. What's missing  here you can't see is the text it leaves.  I bit Impressionistic for me but fun.