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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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 ...

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 idea for a quartet of solo shows at Sandy Carson Gallery (760 Santa Fe Drive, 303-573-8585, www.sandycarsongallery.com) began when owner Sandy Carson decided she wanted to mount an exhibit devoted ...

It was all a misunderstanding. Her husband thought artist Linda Womack left the magazine open to the article on encaustic -- an ancient form of painting with beeswax, resin and pigment -- because she ...

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 ...

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.