Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook In the quiet darkness just before morning, LSA senior Ariela Steif leans over her work table.

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 ...

Nadine Koski moved to Chattanooga from the upper peninsula of Michigan 33 years ago. Inspired by the snowy scenes from her past, her morning walks in the woods and her love for birds, trees and water, ...

Though wax is often used for candles and cosmetics, the Priscilla R. Tyson Columbus Cultural Arts Center, or CCAC, is proving it can also be an art form. Artwork from students of CCAC’s Encaustic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kristianne Tefft always knew that she wanted to be an artist. From a young age, Tefft was excited about art, awaiting the days when the “picture lady” would come to her class, showing different ...

Jim Inzero loved art, but was looking for a change when he discovered encaustic painting during a trip to Mexico. The paint involves the application of colored pigments to heated beeswax. He started ...

Pam Caughey works on an encaustic painting at her studio near Hamilton recently. Caughey has been a painter for 30 years, but since 2008 she's worked in the complex medium that uses beeswax, resin, ...

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 ...