Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax

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With a history that stretches back to the hauntingly beautiful mummy portraits of Greco-Roman Egypt, encaustic art is now enjoying a renewal of popularity among artists and art lovers alike. These days, museums are staging exhibitions of encaustic art, workshops Within the technique are thriving, and art collectors and dealers are assimilating encaustic art into their collections and galleries.
 
The word encaustic is taken from the Greek and means “to burn in.” Within the encaustic process, pigmented wax is applied and then fused to a surface with heat. The result is a broad range of surface effects and a luminous translucency that may be unique to the encaustic medium. Encaustic Art is a whole resource for artists who need to learn how to create fine art with wax. It features step by step techniques with easy-to-consider instructions and detailed illustrations, stunning examples of encaustic artworks (including sculpture), at the side of practical advice and thoughtful aesthetic observations from more than 60 professional artists working Within the encaustic medium.

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