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.

Memphis-based multimedia artist Catherine Erb likes to wax the face value off of things. Starting with shots from her photography hobby, Erb mounts layer after layer of encaustic wax over each image, ...

Jef Gunn sees art in what he calls “accidents.” If he spills a cup of coffee, he’ll make a print of it. If he’s inspired by cracks in the street, he’ll don knee pads, get out in the middle of traffic ...

Some artists use a brush. Others use a blowtorch. Heather Miller is among the latter. With a steady hand, the Newport Beach resident demonstrated her technique recently by gripping a torch canister ...

“One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and went out and bought the materials to begin it.” That’s how American artist Jasper Johns recalled the ...

Is a sanctuary a place, a feeling — or could it be a process? All three are represented in “Sanctuary,” a solo show of encaustic paintings by Waterbury artist Edith Beatty, currently on view at Axel’s ...

Denver artist Jamie Lang sold nearly all of his small, handmade tiles during a recent crafts show, and he can only guess the reasons why. The adobe tiles are minimally decorated – with a red bicycle ...

Artist Kim Covell Maurer is captivated by encaustic painting, an ancient, layered art form. Kim Covell Maurer is an artist who loves a good process. When she discovered the art of encaustic painting ...