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.

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.

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 ...

A word or phrase, a concept, lyrics from a song, the title of a book, a movie, even a pun. For Linda Benenati, the next idea for a piece of art could come from any one of these places. For her latest ...

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.

Some artists use a brush. Others use a blowtorch. Heather Miller is among the latter. With a steady hand, the Newport Beach resident demonstrated her technique recently by gripping a torch canister ...

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 ...

WESTFIELD--For the months of December and January, the encaustic paintings of Francesca Azzara will be exhibited at the Westfield Memorial Library, 550 East Broad Street. The small paintings represent ...

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, ...

At its simplest, encaustic painting is painting with wax, traditionally beeswax. The method was practiced by Greek artists as far back as the 5th Century B.C.E. The best known encaustic works are ...