Images In Encaustic Art

by L. B. Spencer, Ph D

Each work is a one-of-a-kind original

The Pilgrimage

$350

10"x14"

Tea With Joan

Encaustic
$750
shrimp color metal frame
aprox 40"x15"

PRIMROSE LANE
$350
12"x24"

ENCAUSTIC is a technique comprised of painting with individual applications of hot resin-reinforced colored beeswax that fuse together as they are applied.

If the painting surface is kept sufficiently warm, free flowing manipulations may be accomplished while, if the surface is allowed to cool slightly, newly introduced colors have less tendency to flow and therefore will stand separately, resulting in individual passages that appear more brilliant than others.

By fully exploiting these options very free and dramatic results can be obtained. Since encaustic paint is molten, it doesn't always go the way one plans. Spontaneity on the part of the artist becomes essential.

Ancient portraits attest to the fact that encaustic is the most durable artists' paint there is. It is impervious to moisture, will not deteriorate over time, nor will it yellow.