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.

Artist Thya Merz will give a free demonstration on Saturday of an ancient medium becoming popular with contemporary artists: ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A recent encaustic painting by Forest Grove artist Elina Zebergs. Using a torch, Zebergs applies heat to beeswax pigments to create her paintings. (Taylor Smith/Hillsboro Argus) With a steady hand, ...