Encaustic Art

This beginner course teaches encaustic painting from the ground up: making and tinting beeswax and damar medium, setting up a heated palette and fusing workflow, and building luminous layered surfaces that you carve, incise, and embed into. You will work through the core hazards of working hot, the chemistry of why wax behaves as it does, and a low-temperature cold wax variation that needs no flame. By the end you can complete a fused, finished encaustic panel and know which approach suits your studio.