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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getting tired of your same old acrylic or oil paints? Make like the ancient Greeks and Romans and give encaustic paints a try. In ...

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 ...

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.

Area residents are invited to explore the vibrant and tactile world of encaustic painting during a special one-day workshop on April 25 at Owens Community College.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...