Ready to make your own encaustic wax? You’re going to need some beeswax as well as damar resin, which adds translucency and helps to harden your formula so you can properly blend in your pigments.

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Artist Ben Llano Hecht loves the artform. He”s just not too crazy about the word. "People hear ”encaustic” and they hear ”caustic,” which is not what it is at all." Hecht is one of several artists on ...