This latter was called encaustic, and was, according to Plutarch, the most durable of all methods. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The art of mixing pigment and wax on a warm surface, known as encaustic painting, will be taught in a one-day workshop at the Getty Villa. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah Bowman: What's Up for February From Kids Off the Couch] Reference
This is fantastic, but I think I need "encaustic" explained to me. From Wordnik.com. [Rhapsody in wax] Reference
I used gray encaustic to avoid the color situation. From Wordnik.com. [Lovable in Parts] Reference
Why is encaustic beeswax painting your chosen medium?. From Wordnik.com. [Review and Interview: Passage to Freedom Illustrated by Dom Lee] Reference
I think the proper word for them is encaustic. esperanza. From Wordnik.com. [Traditional floor tiles] Reference
If anything should be applied we would prefer the encaustic. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
"A portrait panel'torn from the mummy-encaustic on wood ...". From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy Case]
Etsy Giveaways: Win a tutorial, encaustic painting Ends 2/05. From Wordnik.com. [Win a tutorial, encaustic painting (Ends 2/05)] Reference
The portrait was painted with skill, in encaustic wax on wood. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
I give you the wax-encaustic funerary portraits of the Fayyum. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future] Reference
Rhapsody in wax ... here's an encaustic painting by Gwendolyn. From Wordnik.com. [Rhapsody in wax] Reference
Of the latter the principal was through fire, termed encaustic. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
I'm getting really good results with these new encaustic like techniques. From Wordnik.com. [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference
I melt encaustic beeswax onto paper and then scratch out images like etching. From Wordnik.com. [Review and Interview: Passage to Freedom Illustrated by Dom Lee] Reference
Not only that, but I got a bright cheery encaustic by Susan Monty for a song. From Wordnik.com. [I sold art! And bought art! « knitnut.net] Reference
The entrance hall is most imposing, and the ceiling is richly painted in encaustic. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
In encaustic techniques, fire or heat is used to set, or "burn in," color and design. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
I work with kelp and encaustic beeswax and resins one of the oldest painting methods. From Wordnik.com. [SEAWEED LAMPS! Julia Lohmann’s Kelp Constructs | Inhabitat] Reference
Other methods, notably encaustic and pastel techniques, joined the standard painting repertoire. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
Bishops West and Keene have been replaced, and the remainder of the floor laid with encaustic tiles. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
He came up with an ingenious new style, rendered in an ancient but seldom used medium: wax encaustic. From Wordnik.com. [Rauschenberg's Epic Vision] Reference
The floor has been laid with fragments of old encaustic tiles removed from other parts of the building. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
In "Painting Bitten by a Man" (1961), the artist took a big chomp out of the encaustic painting's center. From Wordnik.com. [Alluring Shades of a Steely Hue] Reference
He was also famous as an encaustic painter, and was employed by Praxiteles to apply his art to his statues. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In Egypt, in the Fayyum, in the many surviving wax-encaustic portraits on sarcophagi, there is a message to us. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future] Reference
"Beckett" (2005), the last piece in the exhibition, consists of two panels, one in oil and the other in encaustic. From Wordnik.com. [Alluring Shades of a Steely Hue] Reference
They might be mixed into a clay or chalk to make pastels, or mixed into a wax base for encaustic painting techniques. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
I saw some beautiful encaustic paintings in a gallery, and the translucency and depth of the medium was very attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » 48 Birds #3: The trouble with beeswax] Reference
The gray encaustic paintings seemed to me to allow the literal qualities of the painting to predominate over any of the others. From Wordnik.com. [Lovable in Parts] Reference
An enormous quantity of richly-colored and decorated encaustic tiles have been found here; some are preserved in our local museum. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
The mere process of burning in constitutes the whole difference between encaustic and the ordinary method of painting with wax colors. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In "Canvas" (1956), he fuses two canvases painted in encaustic, presenting us simultaneously with the front and the back of a painting. From Wordnik.com. [Alluring Shades of a Steely Hue] Reference
To give dimension to many of his paintings, he uses encaustic (wax, applied hot to the canvas) to which he adds pigment, very often gray. From Wordnik.com. [Alluring Shades of a Steely Hue] Reference
Susan uses oil-based inks and paints as well as encaustic. From Wordnik.com. [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference
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