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 ...

As an artist, Melissa DiVietri of Farmington Hills is well aware of the hours it takes to turn ideas into visual art, leaving little, if any, time to promote one’s work. So, since 2006, she’s been ...

She calls herself the Wax Slayer. The name refers to encaustic painter Jackie Cort’s obsession with beeswax, her favorite artistic medium. In her encaustic paintings, Cort adds vivid color (orange is ...

Over the centuries, artists have used everything from ground-up rocks to berries to oils to create pieces of art. At the “Waxing Women” exhibit, opening Thursday in Westminster, the Carroll County ...

All pigment, the actual color in paint, is suspended in an agent. For oil paint, the agent is linseed oil. For acrylic it’s a polymer medium. For watercolor, it’s, yes, water. For encaustic paint the ...