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.

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.

Heat beeswax. Add color pigment. Paint. That's encaustic painting, in a nutshell. But to limit this to such a restrictive definition would be to cheat the creativity, versatility and excitement of the ...

Nadine Koski moved to Chattanooga from the upper peninsula of Michigan 33 years ago. Inspired by the snowy scenes from her past, her morning walks in the woods and her love for birds, trees and water, ...

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 ...

Encaustic painting, an age-old art form, combines beeswax, resin and pigment to create luminous, textured artworks. This ...