I finished this encaustic weeks ago, but something about it wasn't quite right.  One good thing about encaustics is that, because it's wax, any time you want to change it, all you need is your heat gun.  So, today I decided to work with the clouds and I'm definitely glad that I did.  While there's always that fear that you'll mess up something that you really like, this was not the case here.

I added bold brushstrokes of white and then used the heat gun to carefully fuse wax and white pigment to the layers of wax beneath. All the while, diffusing the white and letting the blue show through to give them the airy look I was going for.  Anytime you liquify an area, you have to blend the surface in with the surrounding wax.  This got a little tricky when I was near the horizon, but a soft touch, something I'm not known for, made it work.