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.

Pam Caughey works on an encaustic painting at her studio near Hamilton recently. Caughey has been a painter for 30 years, but since 2008 she's worked in the complex medium that uses beeswax, resin, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Emerson at Beall Park Art Center presents an encaustic painting demonstration, "Artspeak" ...

Through a kit she found online after watching videos about it, Tefft discovered encaustic painting and loved that the medium ...

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 ...

Encaustic painting, an age-old art form, combines beeswax, resin and pigment to create luminous, textured artworks. This ...

“One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and went out and bought the materials to begin it.” That’s how American artist Jasper Johns recalled the ...