For Phillip Ashe, a lifetime of art in varied disciplines shows a diversity in both materials and vision. The Central Carolina Community College art instructor had a gallery exhibition open earlier ...

Encaustic painting is painting with melted and dyed beeswax. Natalie says this painting style incorporates a lot of techniques used in ceramics which she says makes it better.

The art world is vast, filled with time-honored techniques and experimental methods. While most people are familiar with oil painting, watercolors, or sculpture, there are rare, innovative art ...

Sally Hootnick of Manlius will demonstrate both hot and cold encaustic or wax painting at 1 p.m. May 11, 2019, at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn. Her artwork in "Made in NY," "Provenance ...

Hamilton-based encaustic painter Pamela Caughey can take the heat. Encaustic (an ancient Greek word meaning “burning in”) painting is a process involving the fusion of hot wax, pigment and ...

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

Manlius Artist Sally Hootnick is featuring encaustic paintings in her solo exhibition, "Depth Perception: The Archaeology of Wax." But what exactly is it?

HAMILTON - Encaustic, a paint made from beeswax, resin and pigment, is a messy medium that produces a smooth result unlike other forms of painting.