Ready to make your own encaustic wax? You’re going to need some beeswax as well as damar resin, which adds translucency and helps to harden your formula so you can properly blend in your pigments.

Encaustic art is a technique in which pigment is mixed with melted wax, generally beeswax. Greek artists painted with encaustic in the fifth century B.C. and artists experimented with encaustic later, ...

In the quiet darkness just before morning, LSA senior Ariela Steif leans over her work table. Passersby — if there were any — would be presented with a peculiar scene: Framed in the window of her ...

Ember St. Amour is a reporter for the Midland Daily News, covering Midland County government and writing the weekly Business Matters feature. A recent graduate of Ferris State University, she brings ...

“I love the wax; it’s so seductive,” explains Miranda Lake, a New Orleans artist working in encaustic, a medium she made her own more than ten years ago following an extended workshop at Anderson ...

This exhibit features art faculty member Gwendolyn Plunkett's work in the medium of encaustic wax mono-type. "Encaustic paint is made of beeswax, resin and pigment. However, using encaustic paint as a ...