WATCHUNG, NJ -- The Watchung Arts Center, 18 Stirling Road, opens two shows in September. "Encaustic Wax, An Ancient Medium Rediscovered" opens in the upper gallery on Wednesday, Sept. 9, and runs ...

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.

Encaustic art is a technique in which pigment is mixed with melted wax, generally beeswax. Greek artists painted with encaustic in the fifth century B.C. and artists experimented with encaustic later, ...

Denver artist Jamie Lang sold nearly all of his small, handmade tiles during a recent crafts show, and he can only guess the reasons why. The adobe tiles are minimally decorated — with a red bicycle ...

The Hollins University Student Art Gallery is launching an exhibit of the encaustic art work of graduate student Sharon Mirtaheri. The exhibit is displayed in the Student Gallery on the second floor ...

Some artists use a brush. Others use a blowtorch. Heather Miller is among the latter. With a steady hand, the Newport Beach resident demonstrated her technique recently by gripping a torch canister ...

Memphis-based multimedia artist Catherine Erb likes to wax the face value off of things. Starting with shots from her photography hobby, Erb mounts layer after layer of encaustic wax over each image, ...

Discover the Art of Encaustic Painting at Wax & Relax – A Creative Workshop in Toronto Unwind, get inspired, and explore the ancient art of encaustic painting at Wax & Relax, a hands-on Toronto art ...