ENCAUSTIC ROCKS

Welcome to Encaustic Rocks Studio's! Your one stop shop for all your Encaustic Art Supply Needs! We have featured works of art on our gallery page! We will be adding more to the site shortly. We've started to upload the gallery. Art will be available soon for sale as well as all the supplies needed to create your own artwork.

Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface — usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used.

The simplest encaustic mixture can be made from adding pigments to beeswax, but there are several other recipes that can be used — some containing other types of waxes, damar resin, linseed oil, or other ingredients. Pure, powdered pigments can be purchased and used, though some mixtures use oil paints or other forms of pigment.

Metal tools and special brushes can be used to shape the paint before it cools, or heated metal tools can be used to manipulate the wax once it has cooled onto the surface. Today, tools such as heat lamps, heat guns, and other methods of applying heat allow artists to extend the amount of time they have to work with the material. Because wax is used as the pigment binder, encaustics can be sculpted as well as painted. Other materials can be encased or collaged into the surface, or layered, using the encaustic medium to adhere it to the surface.

This technique was notably used in the Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt around 100-300 CE, in the Blachernitissa and other early icons, as well as in many works of 20th-century American artists, including Jasper Johns.

Kut-kut, a lost art of the Philippines implements sgraffito and encaustic techniques. It was practiced by the indigenous tribe of Samar island around 1600 to 1800.^{[citation needed]}

Encaustic art has seen a resurgence in popularity since the 1990s with people using electric irons, hotplates and heated stylus on a variety of different surfaces including card, paper and even pottery. The iron makes producing a variety of artistic patterns elementary. However, the medium is not limited to just abstract designs, it can be used to create complex paintings, just as other media such as oil and acrylic.

Creativity is about exploring, discovering, in fact you could say the emergence of the unknown. The scary part is that being creative requires you to take risk. The reason that wax is such a wonderful medium for this activity is that you can always change things that you do not like. Heat is the solvent, so any wax colours can be "unfrozen at any future time. The waxes can be reworked or removed, added to or abraded. The creativity of this medium is unending. To work with wax in any manner is to encounter a completely new world. The dictionary says "Craft is: skill" & "Art is: skill with imagination" When you try this medium it will stimulate your imagination.

Okay we've finally launched our long awaited Encaustic's Club! We want you to have the best and enjoyable purchasing experience. We've designed the club to fit anyone's budget or needs by offering three different membership levels. You can check out all the club details and benefits by visiting the "CLUB" page!

We are in the process of creating our own wax line and custom colors. In the meantime we can now offer our clear/slick wax to you. It is available in approx 1 oz cakes for $4.99 each. Use it for a good base coat, clean your tools in or for a finishing coat. You can order the new clear wax off the "news page" or off the "Encaustic Wax" page!

COMING SOON-HOW TO VIDEO'S ON ENCAUSTIC ART!!!

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Artist: Jean

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