Fresco Painting During the High Renaissance Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci made some of the most famous frescoes in the world. Michelangelo’s hugely ambitious Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1508-12, featured …
Create A Cracked & Weathered Surface With Pit Lime And Marble Dust More »
When I want to know things I tend to go to the bottom and gather knowledge and experience from different sources. Then I try out the facts/statements in my own …
Testing Suitable Encaustic Grounds using the Freezer Test More »
Chalk & Milk Paint as a stable underpainting for encaustic art So many of us are familiar with acrylic-based mixed media art. YouTube videos have walked us through thousands of …
Yes, you can use Chalk Paint in place of Encaustic Gesso More »
Last month Georgia Ferrell shared a post about her experiments with Venetian Plaster on Jute and Burlap for encaustic surfaces. In this post, Dianne Jean Erickson demonstrates how to use Venetian Plaster as an alternative to Encaustic Gesso when preparing a panel substrate.
Years ago I purchased some oil sticks to play with, not having any idea that they would lead me here, to share my encaustic experimentation with you. Searching for information about …
A fairly new product to the commercial art world is Encaustic gesso. A very good one, made by R & F Paints, allows us to: Why can’t I use acrylic …
Colored Gesso for Encaustic Painting So you think you know and love Holy Grail, the first gesso made for encaustic painting? Well look again – there are over a dozen …
Holy Grail colored gesso | Create an Underpainting for Encaustic More »
