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 ...

The Durham Arts Council is offering a beginner glass bead making class on Jan. 23. Courtesy of Durham Arts Council A weekly roundup of home and garden classes, tours and more. Don’t see your event ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sharon Ligorner is an encaustic painter with a studio at Cottage Street Studios in Easthampton. Credit: GAZETTE STAFF / KEVIN GUTTING Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential ...