Art and Success

I understand pinholes very well – UGH! I also have tried many surfaces and types of torches and heat gun – in almost every case they are present at least to...

When I was just learning the encaustic medium, I spent quite a bit of time just making texture in a few layers of encaustic medium (no color). I learned a l...

Here is a short conversion table for the important temperatures we discuss in encaustic painting.

"You've mentioned a "hot box" a couple of times. What is it and what is it used for? See below – these are my Roland hotboxes which I...

I like to thin out my encaustic paint by diluting it in a tin of hot encaustic medium. I hold  a block of  the encaustic colored wax and just dip it into th...