Ready to make your own encaustic wax? You’re going to need some beeswax as well as damar resin, which adds translucency and helps to harden your formula so you can properly blend in your pigments.

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Encaustics. The word isn't as unfriendly as it sounds in the art world, at least. Suggesting some kind of sarcastic wit or angry aesthetic, it's actually a term for a technique of art... Encaustics.

Artist Thya Merz will give a free demonstration on Saturday of an ancient medium becoming popular with contemporary artists: ...

In her studio in the Duluth harbor area, Natalie Salminen creates gorgeous masterpieces with her encaustic technique. Encaustic painting is painting with melted and dyed beeswax. Natalie says this ...

Denver artist Jamie Lang sold nearly all of his small, handmade tiles during a recent crafts show, and he can only guess the reasons why. The adobe tiles are minimally decorated — with a red bicycle ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In the quiet darkness just before morning, LSA senior Ariela Steif leans over her work table.

The town of Danville’s Village Theatre Art Gallery will present a new art exhibit featuring a collection by established Bay Area artists of encaustic paintings. On Tap: El Campanil Theatre to host ...

Encaustic painter Dale Roberts is the current featured artist at Art in the Storefront, Ambler, 41 E. Butler Ave, adjacent to Denney Electric Supply. The storefront visitors’ area is a covered, ...

La Jolla’s Fresh Paint Gallery, which specializes in making art accessible, has opened a new show featuring the encaustic work of Linda Frueh. Gallery owner and curator Deborah Williams said she is ...

Kristianne Tefft always knew that she wanted to be an artist. From a young age, Tefft was excited about art, awaiting the days when the “picture lady” would come to her class, showing different ...

Encaustic painting — the method of heating wax to create layered and captivating works of art — dates back as far as the fifth century B.C. "Nothing But Blue Skies," encaustic and mixed media on ...