The process is called encaustic painting. Mulkey Bye was intrigued when she saw an artist in Santa Fe working with it. The process is not well-known, so she learned how to do it on her own through ...

In her studio in the Duluth harbor area, Natalie Salminen creates gorgeous masterpieces with her encaustic technique.

The white pieces have undergone a mechanical filtration to decolorize them—a process that is gentler ... makes them easy to tint or use in encaustic painting. Pellets also melt quickly, making ...

It's not your imagination: it's part of the encaustic painting process. Hermitage resident Randy Purcell makes collage-like paintings by transferring magazine ink onto beeswax. Originally from a ...

The art commands her attention. The process is long and complex: Multi-colored layers of wax are added to the canvas, and each addition must be reheated and fused to its hardened predecessors. Most ...

Creating an encaustic work of art is to play with the mind. First, the process: Create a paste from beeswax and a color pigment. Apply the paste quickly since, as the wax cools, it hardens.

She might repeat the texturing process several more times before even applying color, whether in oil stick, oil paint or encaustic paint. She makes the medium herself in her home studio ...

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.

Artist Kim Covell Maurer is captivated by encaustic painting, an ancient, layered art form. Kim Covell Maurer is an artist who loves a good process. When she discovered the art of encaustic ...

The prices of each piece and added details on the encaustic process are displayed within the storefront. Encaustic painting, an ancient hot wax process, combines molten beeswax and dry-colored ...