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 ...

Nature is what lights, artist Melissa Lande up and she uses nature as a way to find inspiration in her work. The Traverse City native focuses on what’s called encaustic painting using heated beeswax ...

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.

HAMILTON - Encaustic, a paint made from beeswax, resin and pigment, is a messy medium that produces a smooth result unlike other forms of painting. It can require sticky beeswax, harmful fumes, toxic ...

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.

Close to Home,” an exhibit featuring the recent encaustic landscapes of Leslie Yolen, will be on view from Dec. 3 through 27, in the gallery at the Kuhar Family Farm Café. A reception will be held on ...

Though wax is often used for candles and cosmetics, the Priscilla R. Tyson Columbus Cultural Arts Center, or CCAC, is proving it can also be an art form. Artwork from students of CCAC’s Encaustic ...

Encaustic painting — the method of heating wax to create layered and captivating works of art — dates back as far as the fifth century B.C. "Nothing But Blue Skies," encaustic and mixed media on ...

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, ...