Using the Encaustic Iron with Heat-Resistant Sponges
If you’re not sure how to use the heat-resistant sponges and scrapies with the encaustic iron: here’s a free tutorial with lots of pictures. This slideshow demonstrates various sponge painting …
How to get started with Encaustic Painting | List of Tools & Supplies
Get started with Encaustic Painting If you’ve been asking yourself, “how do I do encaustic painting?” and now you’re ready to get started, this post will help you choose the encaustic …
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Encaustic Photographs | Experimenting with Photos & Hot Wax
Photo Encaustics: Experimenting with Encaustic Photographs After attending an excellent presentation by Danielle Correia at last year’s Encaustic Conference on painting with encaustic on photographs, I have done some experimenting …
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Why use encaustic gesso to prepare a substrate?
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 …
Painting in a grid: drawing the line!
For years, before encaustic, I painted in a grid, and my pieces often reminded people of quilts. Then along came the wax and my grid was gone! The wax didn’t …
Project Harmony: 32 artist coming together
In the last part of 2009, my friend and fellow artist, Anne Smidt sent me an enthusiastic email asking if I wanted to be a part of a new project, …
How is Microcrystalline Encaustic Wax different from traditional Beeswax?
When I saw microcrystalline encaustic wax art displayed at The Artist Project in Toronto, I was very interested to see how it compares with beeswax encaustic medium. Of the ten …
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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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