Her medium, known as encaustic painting, is as ancient as the Greeks, though it is now an obscure art form. This type of painting, using a combination of beeswax, resin and pigment, is labor intensive ...

Encaustic painting, an age-old art form, combines beeswax, resin and pigment to create luminous, textured artworks. This ...

Jasper Johns painted 'Flag' in encaustic, mixing pigment with hot wax just as the ancient Greeks did thousands of years before him.

Artist Kim Covell Maurer is captivated by encaustic painting, an ancient, layered art form.

Through the ancient art of hot wax painting, Jef Gunn creates complex, modern paintings with pigments in beeswax.

Hundreds of ancient mummy portraits of regular people from Roman Egypt populate museums across the world and provide a glimpse into the diversity of the ancient Mediterranean.

Encaustic painter Dale Roberts is the current featured artist at Art in the Storefront, Ambler, 41 E. Butler Ave, adjacent to Denney Electric Supply.

Encaustic (an ancient Greek word meaning “burning in”) painting is a process involving the fusion of hot wax, pigment and resin into layers onto a surface such as wood, plaster or canvas.

Artwork from students of CCAC’s Encaustic Mixed Media class — which teaches a form of painting that uses wax and resin to create a textured effect — will be on display in the center’s Loft ...