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 ...

“This is such a beautiful area for art and for nature.” • Contact CCW reporter Ben Hohenstatt at 523-2243. Dorolyn Alper holds up one of her encaustic pieces, a photo she took of a bald ...

She grazes a small propane torch across the entire surface ... many years later, that the painting I had seen was not encaustic at all," she said. Caughey began working on large-scale encaustic ...

then deciding I need to figure out how it's done," says Koski about encaustic painting, which involves melting beeswax with resin and fusing it with a torch. This piece was done with shellac ...

“It is wonderfully malleable, textural and responsive to the hot torch used to fuse the layers together.” Aaron’s love of encaustic painting started when she was pursing her master’s degre ...

When she discovered the art of encaustic painting she was hooked ... THEN ONCE I'VE APPLIED IT WITH A BRUSH, I WILL TAKE A TORCH TO IT, TO BURN IT IN. I TEND TO WORK I WOULD SAY MORE ON THE ...

She’s spraying the torch across the surface of one of her paintings and explaining her process: how the flame heats the wax and fuses it, pushes it down or smooths it out in different ways. As an ...

I teach there as well as the Schack Art Center in Everett ... but primarily in encaustic, which is the use of melted beeswax and a torch. It has a tactility like no other medium that inspires ...

Simply put, encaustic painting is a type of painting where artists paint not with pigment, but pigment infused with hot wax that can be applied to a surface to create a layered, textured ...

Encaustic painting is a process which involves heating beeswax to a molten state, then adding pigment and damar resin. The resulting paint is then applied to a surface (wood, canvas, etc.) in layers ...