Involves painting with molten wax, pigment and resin combined. A rigid substrate must be used or the wax could crack. The wax paint is applied with a brush, a palette knife, or poured. When painting with wax, layers must be fused with additional heat in order to bond. Care must be taken to avoid extremes in temperature (below freezing and above 140 F). Otherwise encaustic is very stable. It does not darken or yellow. As with all paint, the color’s permanence depends in part on the light-fast qualities of the pigments used. Unlike most other paints, wax is impervious to moisture and insects! It literally “seals” the substrate!
Across the Universe
Nine Squares
Work In Progress
Meeting of the High Council – WIP
Study of Atlas sketchbook page – watercolor
Atlas or Prometheus? – encaustic painting
By Night – watercolor monoprint
By Day – watercolor monoprint
Yin-encaustic detail
Wave – encaustic detail
Trees – encaustic detail
Solar
Shooter
Scratch
Roller
Pool
Juxta – Encaustic detail
Gear – Encaustic detail
Flow – Encaustic detail
Flores – Encaustic detail
Duck – Encaustic detail
Drive – Encaustic detail
Crow – Encaustic detail
Crawler – Encaustic detail
Bee – Encaustic detail
Cradlesong – digital black and white
Allegory of the Cave – encaustic monoprint
Steeple Chase – Encaustic
Cradlesong – digital image
Caverns of Shangrila – encaustic monoprint
Steeple Chase – Encaustic Work in Progress
Moon Child – Encaustic WIP
Moon Child – Inkwash WIP
Kind of Blue – Encaustic WIP
The Illusion – Encaustic WIP
The Dream – Encaustic WIP
Dream – Encaustic WIP
Temple of Vesta – back
Yoga Practice – Encaustic panel
World View – Encaustic
Winter Trees – Encaustic
Wanderlust – Encaustic
Temple of Vesta – front
Tower Revelation – Encaustic
Tomorrow & Tomorrow – Encaustic
The_Wheel_Turns_The_Power_Burns – Encaustic panel
The Stand – Encaustic
Steeple Chase – Encaustic panel
Spirit Flight – Encaustic panel
Shift – Encaustic panel
Sgrafitto – Encaustic
Red Wheelbarrow – Encaustic
Queen – Creative Outlet
Painted Guitar – Encaustic
Moonchild – Encaustic
Meltdown – Encaustic
March for No Reason – Encaustic
March for New Reason – encaustic detail
Manifest Destiny – front, encaustic and found objects
Manifest Destiny-detail, encaustic and found objects
Manifest Destiny – back, encaustic and found objects