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.

Artists from around the world are expected to gather in Truro for the 19th International Encaustic Conference, a three-day ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the quiet darkness just before morning, LSA senior Ariela Steif leans over her work table. Passersby — if there were any — would be presented with a peculiar scene: Framed in the window of her ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NORWAY — Norway Memorial Library is exhibiting ‘Common Work and Common ...

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 ...

An encaustic piece by Shannon Mello. She made 200 differently-sized shapes for her new show at Auric Gallery, "What I Pick Up Along the Way." (Courtesy of Shannon Mello) At first, Colorado Springs ...

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 ...