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In The Studio
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Work Area with electric griddles
In my studio I use three electric pancake griddles that I use to heat my encaustic wax. Each color has it's own dedicated tin and brush. The cloth pins make a wonderful little handle that makes it easy to remove the tin from the heat as needed.
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Wood Panels prepped and ready
With encaustic painting you need to use a rigid substrate that is somewhat absorbent. Although there are many different substracts to chose from i favor wooden panels.
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Paint supplies organized
My studio can get very messy during a working session but i do love to keep my supplies and area organized whenever possible. Here you can see that i have all my colors in there own container.
Artist Palette
Sometimes i also use oil paint and cold wax in my work. This picture is showing my large glass palette i use to mixed colors with and my huge collection of tools including hake brushes and my tjanting tool to make lines of encaustic wax with.
Hot Tools
When working with a painting the visual artist must use heated tools like a torch, iron or heatgun to melt the wax and manipulate the wax to the desired effect. I never keep the flame in one place for too long. Most of the time its a light kiss of the flame just to help bond the wax layers together