Hello Pete, hello fellow forum folk. I'm Zaquiel and a long-time lurker in the YT comments on Pete's videos. I sometimes even comment on them. I'm also known by the screen name Umbra_Arcana on IG and BSky.
A little bit about me, I studied fine art at A-Levels but was not allowed to continue it into university. I spent a chunk of my life in the merchant navy and when it spat me out...well art has been keeping me sane ever since. I primarily work with encaustic wax, it's my favourite medium to work with, closely followed by acrylics. (Though I don't tend to publicly post much of my encaustic work anymore because of GenAI scraping. My work got scraped.)
I will dabble and experiment with anything at least once and if I don't like the medium/material, it gets passed on to an arty friend. If I like it, it gets added to my hoard of art supplies and experimented with when the inspiration strikes. It's nice to meet you all and I look forward to chatting with all you arty folks.
This is interesting, I had never heard of Encaustic Wax before reading your post. I had to go look it up to see what exactly you were talking about. I at first assumed it would be some sort of sculptuing. But surprisingly it is a form of painting. How did you get into this as an art medium? It looks as though you may need additional equipment and setup from your traditional acrylic or oil painting setup, Im gonna need to do some more reasearch and find out how to use this.
What does scraping mean? Does it mean AI copied your work.?
Welcome aboard and thank you for sharing. 🙂