Water St., take in Collinson Fine Art's paintings, photography and
encaustic painting; revel in the colorful work of abstract expressionist Dawn Jones, who creates with acrylic and enamel paint, inks, colored pencils and pastels; view a selection of Felicia Raschke's small works, as well as monoprint, collage and collage over watercolor; see Jessica Fincher's colorful, contemporary works of art inspired by nature.
She continues to work and exhibit in her favorite media, atmospherically fired ceramics and
encaustic painting.
Another great use for broken crayons is an elementary version of
encaustic painting. Melt the crayons in crayon melters and have the students paint with the molten crayons on mat board.
And, taking full advantage of the bee's bounty, Marina started to feed her artistic soul by painting with heated beeswax in a technique known as
encaustic painting. About five years ago--and a full seven years after starting her business--Marina reached a financial milestone.
It is worth noting that Johns, following the logic implied in his work, preserved the act of eating in Painting Bitten by a Man (1961), an
encaustic painting that the artist has literally bitten into.
Encaustic painting is the creative method of choice for Deborah Standard.
"Using the ancient method of
encaustic painting, which dates back to the 5th century B.C., Berger combines a rich blend of raw pigment, liquid wax and dammar crystals, which she burns on the surface," read a description of the exhibit.
The range of media is also remarkable: bronze, copper, silver, gold, polychrome glass, granite, obsidian, frescos,
encaustic painting, and much more.
Still, despite its technical success from the end of the eighteenth century on, this costly procedure, which was practiced exclusively by Italian craftsmen, met with competition from other techniques of producing an unalterable copy: painting on enamel,
encaustic painting, and especially painting on porcelain.
Mummy portraits of Rome and Egypt serve as the earliest examples of
encaustic painting. Nevertheless, Hazel Marsh's book, Wax Art, can serve as a new, different and distinctive resource for painting.