How to make wax art.

To make a piece of art out of wax you need a whole mess of candles, a piece of wood or board, an old or unused saucepan, an old or unused ladle and a nine inched nail.
First cut the piece of board to your required size and set up a little area of your home (not too far away from the cooker) that you can get a little messy.
Now start melting the candles in your old saucepan, fish out the wicks being careful not to splash any way on your cooker.
Once you have a good amount of melted wax carefully walk it over to board and use your ladle to pour the wax out.
After a few trips back and forth you should have a completely covered board (ideally about 8mm thick), you can now snap off any wax that is overhanging the board and melt that too.
Once the wax has all dried, cut off any pieces that are overhanging and use a knife to smooth off the edges.
Now comes the time consuming part:
The way I did it was to hold the flat end of a big nail in the flame of a candle and then push it in to the wax to burn a hole. You have to keep cleaning the nail with an old cloth to remove the unwanted wax.
This part takes time but once your required pattern starts taking shape your enthusiasm will grow.

If your board has twisted or bent in the process you can simply bend it back, use force if necessary, I did and these beautiful cracks appeared.

The final piece will be surprisingly resilient to the heat of your home. This piece hangs about 8 feet away from my open fire at home. Before it even occurred to me that the wax could heat up and fall off, it had been hanging there for months.

If you have some metal letters like the ones used in baking (shown below) you could even burn words in the wax.

Experiment and progress!