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.

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 ...

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.

This undated publicity photo provided by Interweave/F+W Media shows artist Daniella Woolf's piece, "Serviette," in which she adhered various papers, including paper napkins and die-cut shapes, with ...

“One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and went out and bought the materials to begin it.” That’s how American artist Jasper Johns recalled the ...

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 ...

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.

Get your imaginations ready for our monthly encaustic workshop at LucSculpture! Encaustic is an ancient Greek and Egyptian arts of painting with pigmented, melted beeswax. In this versatile medium, ...

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 ...