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Heat-resistant Sponges Tutorial

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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

Choosing the right encaustic fusing tools

Encaustic Fusing Tools

When painting with encaustic, one needs to fuse the first layer of wax to the substrate and then each subsequent layer needs to be fused to the layer below. The artist will fuse the layers of wax with either a … Continue reading

Waxing On: My favorite iron technique

encaustic iron

This versatile fusing tool is often overlooked, and yet it can give us so many wonderful effects! Andrea Bird will be demonstrating Fusing with the Iron at the Encaustic Conference. Here she gives us a taste of what’s to come. Continue reading