Good one, Dave.  Thanks for sharing your video.  I'm sure it will be seen and appreciated by many, many people.
DavidO

Did you scroll down to the bottom? The small pic there is the actual video. LOL I tried forever to get the opening picture to play :p

All fixed up.  You can easily watch the video now
http://kickbike.blogspot.com/2009/12/ma … -felt.html

I'm in sub tropical Brisbane so it too is hot. The more wax you put on the less you have to flex and while I used Childrens Crayons -- eg; Crayola -- a better resource is industrial crayons which are made to mark timber. You can use any and all encaustic waxes of course. And don't forget boot polishes.

A few primary colours is all you need, and you mix them on the mask's surface while you apply them.

These waxes will melt at high temperatures and what you find, is that it is easier to heat the mask surface up -- as a hotplate to scratch on the crayon. You then well up the wax like a wave  just by using the hairdryer blow heat and push it across the mask surface. You can see it adhering and changing the texture and colour  of the surface .

If you think there is going to be a problem use boot polish and leather dyes But your boot polish doesn't melt  on your shoes despite the fact that on a hot day the polish will be very soft in the tin.

In contrast, I suspect encaustic applied like this over papier mache may lead to problems. --  the hot hair serving only to crisp up the paper and encourage the layers to separate. So you'd need a slightly different encaustic approach and bees wax has a lower melt temperature than the crayon waxes -- being I suspect, closer to paraffin.

However,  the felt is such a rough surface it readily takes up waxes and dry pastels(oil pastels are another option too by the way).  Thats' another advantge with felt.

Encaustic waxes are also not very cheap and given the bee crisis in your country I suspect  wax prices have risen sharply.