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.

A cold New England Saturday found me pulling into a snowy driveway. My destination was an unimposing art studio whose door simply read "Studio 589." Inside, newly sanded light wood floors glistened, ...

A subtle play of color and encaustic texture combine to create a complex and pleasing color block field with collage and ephemera promises to surprise and intrigue the viewer.

A subtle and complex play of color and encaustic texture combine to create a color block field imprinted with lines and symbols that promise to surprise and intrigue the viewer.

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 ...

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 ...