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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

La Jolla’s Fresh Paint Gallery, which specializes in making art accessible, has opened a new show featuring the encaustic work of Linda Frueh. Gallery owner and curator Deborah Williams said she is ...