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Cold Wax Medium, Part One
If you read the previous post about Frances Pratt, you probably know where I’m going next. Yup, the final frontier—cold wax emulsion. Mostly, we contemporary encaustic dabblers don’t need to make cold...
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Great Encaustic Resources
Since we’re edging into Christmas, I thought I’d mention a couple of great books for encaustic artists. A list of resources is posted under a separate tab (above) but it is by no means complete. New...
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Encaustic Winter Work
Here’s a piece I did last weekend for Christmas. Winter. 2012. Encaustic on board, 8 1/2″ x 7 1/2″. Photo by The Theory. Yes, those are dried weed embeds. I’m not generally wild about embeds–they seem...
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Cold Wax Paint
Last time we discussed using cold wax medium to prepare boards for encaustic. The next step is to make cold wax paint. In Encaustic Materials and Methods, Frances Pratt notes dozens of variations on...
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Encaustic Glaze Week
I’m still loving this book—Encaustic Materials and Methods by Frances Pratt and Becca Fizell. It was written at a time when encaustic art included a range of materials and techniques, and many of the...
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Encaustic Glaze Week–Hot Glaze
David Aronson (1923-). Bell-Boy. Encaustic, 28.5″ x 18.5″. Last time I talked about a very simple adaptation to the encaustic medium recipe we all use. Instead of the standard 8 parts beeswax to 2...
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Glaze Week Continues
I’m in a glaze myself today as we finally reach Friday here at The Hive. In my first post I talked about a glaze made from an enhanced version of the wax medium recipe that we all use. In the next...
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Cold Wax Paint Redefined
Good morning. We’re going to talk about cold wax paint this week—a subject that one would think I’d already exhausted. I’ve written how cold wax paint can be used in encaustic work, it can be treated...
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Hive Encaustic Buffalo and Francis Pratt Update
The Hive Encaustic went dormant last week as I had to travel for work to Denver, Colorado. I went to a place called the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. This is high prairie, cold and...
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Encaustic Materials and Methods by Francis Pratt and Becca Fizell
Cover of Encaustic Materials and Methods: A facsimile edition. Encaustic Materials and Methods is finally here! Long-time followers of this blog may remember that I’ve been talking about bringing the...
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