sharpartonline.com » wax http://sharpartonline.com Pop Art and Contemporary Paintings Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:26:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Encaustic Painting http://sharpartonline.com/2010/06/encaustic-painting/ http://sharpartonline.com/2010/06/encaustic-painting/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:07:46 +0000 SharpArt http://sharpartonline.com/?p=362 Continue reading →]]> Fayum Lady 100ADPeter Sinai-600ADHad never heard of this! A very old and intermittently re-found technique which uses bees wax and pigments to paint or model paint with. The bees wax has to be heated so it can be manipulated. It seems it was first used for Egyptian mummies – but looking at the style of these paintings – with a more Romanesque style.

People near

Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts

will be able to see demonstrations of this strange technique at their Arts Festival this weekend.

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