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.

In her studio in the Duluth harbor area, Natalie Salminen creates gorgeous masterpieces with her encaustic technique. Encaustic painting is painting with melted and dyed beeswax. Natalie says this ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In the quiet darkness just before morning, LSA senior Ariela Steif leans over her work table.

A new Carrollwood Cultural Center exhibition, "Encaustic Impressions: A Florida Wax Show," shows what artists can create when they "paint with wax." ...

Kristianne Tefft always knew that she wanted to be an artist. From a young age, Tefft was excited about art, awaiting the days when the “picture lady” would come to her class, showing different ...

At its simplest, encaustic painting is painting with wax, traditionally beeswax. The method was practiced by Greek artists as far back as the 5th Century B.C.E. The best known encaustic works are ...

A recent encaustic painting by Forest Grove artist Elina Zebergs. Using a torch, Zebergs applies heat to beeswax pigments to create her paintings. (Taylor Smith/Hillsboro Argus) With a steady hand, ...

Artist Eva Barstow of Stow was slow to discover the medium of encaustic. It wasn’t that she didn’t like the idea of painting with layers of melted wax; it was simply that she misunderstood the name.