Encaustic art supplies for the do-it-yourself artist. Encaustic materials and tools can be expensive for beginners, yet virtually all of the ingredients and equipment are easily available and affordable--if you know where to look. The Encaustic Materials Handbook is for artists with a do-it-yourself attitude, who want to explore and experiment with the medium and develop their own stunning effects. Here you can learn how traditional non-encaustic materials (such as oil paint, classic gesso and turpentine) can be used with gypsum, garden lime and powdered milk in the encaustic studio. Discover...
Encaustic art supplies for the do-it-yourself artist. Encaustic materials and tools can be expensive for beginners, yet virtually all of the ingredien...
Out-of-print for more than 60 years and extremely rare, Frances Pratt and Becca Fizell's Encaustic Materials and Methods, first published in 1949, is considered one of the most important studies of encaustic materials and the artists who use them, and continues to be a valuable resource to any artist interested in this extraordinary medium. Beginning their survey of the practice of painting with wax in ancient Egypt, and as it passed to the Greeks and Romans, Pratt and Fizell go on to different practices current in 18th and 19th century Europe, including detailed discussions of materials and...
Out-of-print for more than 60 years and extremely rare, Frances Pratt and Becca Fizell's Encaustic Materials and Methods, first published in 1949, is ...