From: Katharine Thayer (kthayer@pacifier.com)
Date: 02/08/02-10:27:20 AM Z
Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> yesterday I got a whim to take a polaroid transfer (4x5 polaroid
> printed in a Day Lab and transferred to watercolor paper) and wax it. I
> heated the beeswax pellets I have from Daniel Smith, which are white and
> purified, and stuck the transfer in the wax. The watercolor paper soaks up
> the wax nicely and it dries smooth, hard and tough. It does scratch. It
> can also be buffed.
My understanding was that heat-fusing the wax (with a blowtorch, heat
gun or hot iron) makes it more resistant to scratching and other
damage; do you know if that's so?
kt
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