Category Archives: Products

Enkaustikos Hot Sticks

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Ruth in featured, Products
Enkaustikos hotsticks

Introducing Hot Sticks the newest product from Enkaustikos. Hot Sticks are ready-to-use professional encaustic paints, the same formula as Enkaustikos Hot Cakes, in a stick format. Hot Sticks are made from Pharmaceutical Grade (USP) beeswax, damar resin and artist quality … Continue reading →

Birch Panels for Encaustic Art

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Ruth in Products
custom picture framing, artist quality birch panels, encaustic studio & gallery

Birch panels are a wonderful substrate for encaustic art. At the Fifth International Encaustic Conference I met Jane Bowen-Longman. Jane is an artist working in encaustic and the owner of Jane’s Frames – custom picture framing, artist quality birch panels … Continue reading →

Pan Pastel Love

Posted on July 15, 2011 by StephanieGreenArt in featured, Products
pan pastels encaustic

I just started using PanPastel with my encaustic and I love them! PanPastel® Colors are soft pastels in shallow pans instead of a stick format. They are highly pigmented, dry color medium and literally go on and blend like a … Continue reading →

Encaustic Gesso

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Victoria in featured, Products
encaustic-gesso

A fairly new product to the commercial art world is Encaustic gesso. A very good one, made by R & F Paints, allows us to: omit the initial beeswax ‘primer’ layer create a white, toothy, gesso’d surface ideal for Encaustics … Continue reading →

Holy Grail Underpainting – Encaustic Gesso

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Hylla Evans in Products
Good Food, Jeff Schaller

So you think you know and love Holy Grail, the first gesso made for encaustic painting?  Well look again – there are over a dozen colors now and artists are having a field day using them straight, tinting them with … Continue reading →