This comprehensive book has in-depth information on choosing tools and materials, setting up your work area, preparing the surface of your painting and applying the medium to create various effects. Everything you need to know about this exciting medium!

In addition to the tips and techniques, the experts in The Cloth Paper Scissors Book elaborate on their favorite tools and mediums, including paintbrushes, adhesives, papers, waxes, found objects, and more, taking the guesswork out of achieving tricky effects. Paperback. 160 Pages.

Encaustic art is an ancient medium that is increasingly popular with contemporary fine artists. The author presents invaluable tips and techniques gleaned from interviews and studio visits with more than 60 professional artists working internationally.

Using more than 155 step-by-step photographs and many inspirational examples, Michael Bossom shows how to paint a whole range of stunning pictures that include vibrant flowers, incredible fantasy scenes, tranquil landscapes, and luminous abstract designs.

You don't need to be an artist or have special skills to create encaustic art. With just a few colors, blank cards, and a small electric iron, an entire range of paintings, decorated cards, and gifts can be easily created. "Encaustic Art" shows you how.

Rusting and burning, carving and spackling, tarring and flocking — these are just a few of the unique and surprising techniques author Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch shares with readers in the pages of Encaustic Mixed Media. The approaches and methods in this book are sure to spark your creativity.

In The Encaustic Studio, award-winning artist Daniella Woolf shares her groundbreaking methods and approaches to encaustic painting. The book includes an introduction to materials, tools, and methods, plus guidelines for preparing substrates, sizing, and heat-fusing encaustic mediums and paints.

Encaustic Workshop, Artistic Techniques for Working with Wax introduces the art of encaustic painting, the tools and supplies needed, and more than 25 step-by-step techniques for delving into this layered medium.

Masters: Collage features a breathtaking mix of techniques from traditional cut-and-paste to digital to collage with paint or encaustic. Artists' styles range from wildly playful and colorful to evocative, almost monochromatic images.

Author Jan Visser shows you how to apply colored wax to glossy cardstock, paper, canvas, glass, porcelain, wood, and fabric using several heat sources and applicators. Visser also provides information about materials, tools, basic techniques, color mixing, finishes, and application possibilities.