Category Archives: Techniques

Building up texture

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Ruth in Techniques
pebbly beach Encaustic Painting by Ruth Martin-Maude

Some of my encaustic paintings this past year are very textured. I’ve been playing with building up layer upon layer of encaustic medium.

Here’s a description of the technique I use. Continue reading → Continue reading →

Wet shellac burn

Posted on June 24, 2011 by StephanieGreenArt in Techniques
shellac

This is a youtube video of a wet shellac burn I did. The effect is subtle but exactly what I was looking for.

Patterned Effects and Visual Texture – Gregory Wright

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Ruth in featured, Techniques
Gregory Wright Encaustic Conference

Last week my Facebook friend, Artist Thea Haubrich posted new Encaustic work. In this painting she used a shellac burn technique to create beautiful gold clouds. I was intrigued and I wanted to know how to use this technique myself. … Continue reading →

Heat-resistant Sponges Tutorial

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Thea Haubrich in Techniques
sponges

Thea Haubrich show us how to use heat resistant sponges and rubber tipped scrapy tools to create encaustic art on an upturned encaustic iron Continue reading → Continue reading →

Experimenting with Photographs in Encaustic

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Thea Haubrich in featured, Techniques
Printed on Arches Velin Museum Rag

After attending an excellent presentation by Danielle Correia at last year’s Encaustic Conference on working with encaustic on photographs, I have done some experimenting of my own. Here are the results of five different experiments with photographs in encaustic wax. Continue reading → Continue reading →

Painting in a grid: drawing the line!

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Andrea Bird in featured, Techniques
Encaustic Art Andrea Bird

For years, before encaustic, I painted in a grid, and my pieces often reminded people of quilts. Then along came the wax and my grid was gone! The wax didn’t want to flow into squares and rectangles, and so I … Continue reading →

Encaustic and Soft Pastels

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Victoria in Techniques
Station to Station

My Encaustic painting, Station to Station, 18″ x 24″, is an example of the effect achieved by combining pastels (not oil!), used before the Encaustic medium is applied. This mixed media piece shows yet another reason to love Encaustic! Using … Continue reading →

Photocopy image transfers are such fun!

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Ruth in featured, Techniques
view-from-my-window

I’ve taken five encaustic workshops with Andrea Bird and in each class there is always someone who hasn’t learned this technique. Everyone has the same wonderful reaction as the paper comes away from the wax and the ink is left … Continue reading →