Encaustic fusing tools are an important part of encaustic painting. Heat is used in every step of the encaustic painting process. You need to fuse every layer—first to the substrate and then every subsequent layer to the layers before.
There are a number of different hot tools that work well for encaustic fusing including: the heat gun,embossing heat gun, iron, blow torch and encaustic stylus.
The posts here in the encaustic fusing tools category will help you choose which hot tool to use when. Each fusing tool will give you a different effect.
The Encaustic Art Iron The Encaustic Art brand of iron has been made and marketed for encaustic painting. The Encaustic Art Iron is the main tool for iron painting on […]
Comparing Encaustic Irons for fusing and painting effects More »
There are many different tools used in hot wax encaustic painting. Of all my heat tools, I find I use my small encaustic irons and encaustic art stylus tools, the
There are a variety of ways to finish the edges of an encaustic painting The edges of encaustic paintings/panels can be treated in a variety of ways. Some artists mask
How to Finish the Edges of Panels with the Encaustic Iron More »
Fusing is important when working with Encaustic When painting with encaustic, one needs to fuse the first layer of wax to the substrate and then each subsequent layer needs to
Tools for Fusing Encaustic | How to fuse with different tools More »
It’s funny how, once we have seemingly mastered the basics about working in Encaustic, we forget how challenging they were to learn. I’m speaking specifically of using heat guns with
Waxing On: Encaustic Exploration Encaustic, by its nature, pulls us–as artists, into new territory. This is one of the aspects of it that I love. There is a sense that
