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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...