Comparing Irons for Encaustic Painting
The iron is a valuable fusing tool for encaustic painting. The iron is the tool of choice to get a smooth flat wax surface and it works well for fusing …
Encaustic Fusing Tools
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.
How to use Hot Tools to Fuse Encaustic
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.
Hot wax painting: Encaustic Art Stylus
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 …
How to Finish the Edges of Panels with the Encaustic Iron
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 …
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Tools for Fusing Encaustic | How to fuse with different tools
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 …
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Using Heat Guns with Encaustic for Beginners
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 …
Ironing over drips & drops | Encaustic Technique
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 …
