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:For encaustic tiles see Encaustic tile
Encaustic tile

Encaustic tiles are ceramic tiles in which the pattern or figure on the surface is not a product of the ceramic glaze but of different colors of clay....
 Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax
Beeswax

Beeswax is a natural wax produced in the Beehive of honey bees of the genus Apis. Worker bees have eight wax-producing mirror glands on the inner sides of the sternites on abdominal segments 4 to 7....
 to which colored pigment
Pigment

A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it Reflection as the result of selective color absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which the material itself emits light....
s are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface — usually prepared wood, though canvas
Canvas

Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty plain weave cloth used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other functions where sturdiness is required....
 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 wax
Wax

Wax has traditionally referred to a substance that is secreted by bees and used by them in constructing their honeycombs.It is an imprecisely defined term generally understood to be a substance with properties similar to beeswax, namely...
es, damar
Damar

Damar can refer to:* Damar gum, also dammar gum, a resin produced by the Dipterocarpaceae family of trees* Damar , an island of Indonesia, part of the Barat Daya Islands...
 resin, linseed oil
Linseed oil

Linseed oil, also known as flax seed oil or simply flax oil, is a clear to yellowish drying oil derived from the dried ripe seeds of the flax plant ....
, or other ingredients.






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:For encaustic tiles see Encaustic tile
Encaustic tile

Encaustic tiles are ceramic tiles in which the pattern or figure on the surface is not a product of the ceramic glaze but of different colors of clay....
 Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax
Beeswax

Beeswax is a natural wax produced in the Beehive of honey bees of the genus Apis. Worker bees have eight wax-producing mirror glands on the inner sides of the sternites on abdominal segments 4 to 7....
 to which colored pigment
Pigment

A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it Reflection as the result of selective color absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which the material itself emits light....
s are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface — usually prepared wood, though canvas
Canvas

Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty plain weave cloth used for making sails, tents, marquees, backpacks, and other functions where sturdiness is required....
 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 wax
Wax

Wax has traditionally referred to a substance that is secreted by bees and used by them in constructing their honeycombs.It is an imprecisely defined term generally understood to be a substance with properties similar to beeswax, namely...
es, damar
Damar

Damar can refer to:* Damar gum, also dammar gum, a resin produced by the Dipterocarpaceae family of trees* Damar , an island of Indonesia, part of the Barat Daya Islands...
 resin, linseed oil
Linseed oil

Linseed oil, also known as flax seed oil or simply flax oil, is a clear to yellowish drying oil derived from the dried ripe seeds of the flax plant ....
, 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 collage
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d 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
Fayum mummy portraits

Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits is the modern term for a type of realistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummy from History of Roman Egypt ....
 from Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
 around 100-300 AD, in the Blachernitissa
Blachernitissa

'Blachernitissa' , also called 'Theotokos of Blachernae' or 'Our Lady of Blachernae' , is a 7th-century encaustic icon representing the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus....
 and other early icons, as well as in many works of 20th-century American artists
Visual arts of the United States

Visual arts of the United States refers to the history of painting and visual art in the United States. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style....
, including Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns

File:Jasper Johns's 'Map', 1961.jpgJasper Johns, Jr. is a contemporary American artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery....
.

Kut-kut, a lost art of the Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
 implements sgraffito
Sgraffito

Sgraffito is a technique either of wall decor, produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colors to a moistened surface, or in Ceramics , by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip, and then in either case scratching so as to produce an outline drawing....
 and encaustic techniques. It was practiced by the indigenous tribe of Samar
Samar

Samar, formerly Western Samar, is a Provinces of the Philippines in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas Regions of the Philippines....
 island around 1600 to 1800.

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 in other media such as oil and acrylic.

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