The images are then painted and heavily saturated
with encaustic wax.
Stover works with a cool palette of dark blue / teal, beige, pumpkin orange, and taupe on white, finishing the work
with an encaustic wax coating.
Not exact matches
The prints go though the flatbed etching press twice — once
with the inked up plate for the landscape a second time when the print has dried to add the dot and then an
encaustic veneer or varnish is added last, so they are encased in
wax.
I've worked intensely
with encaustic /
wax for the past 5 years.
Self - taught in
wax encaustic, Memphis based artist Mary Long has been painting
with this medium almost exclusively for the past decade.
Subsequently, this inspired him to create The Flag, a painting in
encaustic — this classical technique has its roots in ancient Egypt and it is based on mixing pigments
with melted
wax.
The remainder come from a mix of private and public collections,
with the Whitney Museum of American Art lending one highlight: the 1958 canvas «Three Flags» done in
encaustic — a traditional,
wax - based medium that Mr. Johns used to create an uneven, almost rippling texture, underscoring the handmade nature of his flags.
Working
with his familiar vocabulary of collaged images combined
with unexpected surfaces and found objects, the artist developed a technique for applying a silkscreened
encaustic image to the polished metal surfaces of these works by forcing hot, brightly colored
wax through a metal screen.
Using a «found» Korean action thriller by director Kim Jee Woon, entitled A Bittersweet Life (2005), Webster works
with paint and
encaustic wax on large and small - scale film stills (computer - generated screenshots), which have been printed onto synthetic and slippery digital canvas.
Here is an artist who's making hard - edge paintings
with a soft material, oil and
wax in an
encaustic - like mix, and making it work.
(born 1938, Bronxville, New York, USA) in his earliest mature works explored a reductive strategy which seemed similar to that of Jasper Johns's and Ellsworth Kelly's contemporaneous works, yet more formalist: paintings such as Return 1 consist of subtly grey fields painted in
encaustic (
wax - medium)
with a narrow strip along the bottom of the canvas where Marden left bare evidence of process (i.e., drips and spatters of paint).
The results are sumptuous abstract
encaustic paintings that utilize a minimal color palette and repetitive imagery, thick layers of translucent and opaque
wax, paper prepared
with batik markings and hand rubbed oil stick combined to create multi dimensional panels.
JAMES TURRELL (B. 1943) North Space signed, titled and dated «North Space, 1993 James Turrell» (on the reverse)
encaustic wax with mica powder on wood panel in steel frame 25 x 20 in.
White North Space signed, titled and dated «White North Space 1993 James Turrell» (on the reverse)
encaustic wax with mica powder on wood panel in steel frame 25 x 20 in.
For over 20 years I have focused solely in working in this ancient technique of
wax encaustic where elements are combines
with heat as the active solvent.
She works
with the ancient technique of
encaustic wax, a combination of beeswax, resin and pigments in which heat serves as the active solvent.
American artist Lynda Benglis began experimenting
with encaustic in the 1960s, in part inspired by Jasper Johns and his dedication to
wax.
Tres Memoria, which you see here, represents one of Lynda Benglis's smooth - surfaced
encaustic paintings executed on narrow, vertical supports using multicoloured liquid
wax in even brush strokes, which she then manipulated
with a blow torch to obtain a marbleized color effect.
«Flag» was created between 1960 and 1966
with wax encaustic and newspaper.
Intensely interested in experimentation, he learned to work
with «
encaustic» a method which combines pigments and hot
wax before they are applied to the surface of a painting.
For instance, he was one of the few exponents of
encaustic painting (pigment mixed
with hot
wax), and sculp - metal, a quick - drying material designed for crafts hobbyists rather than serious sculptors.
Encaustic, a method reaching back to ancient times, is by definition a technique consisting of layers of
wax fused together
with heat.
Melt and grate crayons in our take on Jasper Johns's
encaustic paintings, working
with wax to design a flag that represents you.
The style two photos above is paired
with an
encaustic painting, which is a technique of applying paint mixed
with wax on canvas or art board.