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| The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax | 
 enlarge | Author: Joanne Mattera
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (20 reviews)
Sales Rank: 84988
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 9.1 x 1
ISBN: 0823002837
Dewey Decimal Number: 751.46
EAN: 9780823002832
ASIN: 0823002837
Publication Date: June 1, 2001
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Product Description
With its roots in Ancient Greece, encaustic is a wax-based painting medium, characterized by luminous colour and a lush service. This handbook reveals how to master this beautiful yet demanding medium. It discusses ways to achieve vibrant colour and create surfaces that look as light as a wash or as densely textured as impasto. The author demonstrates how to produce effects from abstract to figurative to minimal, and how to use encaustic techniques in their own art. The book includes examples of artwork from leading encaustic artists such as Jasper Johns, Arthur Dove and Nancy Graves.
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 Encaustic Nowadays October 24, 2008
As I'm a painter and want to expand my set of materials I'm using, I bought it, it is a very good book to get into Encaustic
 encaustic book October 10, 2008
The book touches the basics of encaustics and it's a great reference for artists interested in learning more about the medium.
 Inspiring book July 20, 2008
This book was unusual as an artbook. It takes me beyond the "hobby" status many art book seems to have. Proffessional and inspiring!
Encaustic painting May 3, 2008
If you want information as an artist intending to try encaustic painting
then this is a good book--it covers everything to get started painting with
encaustic. Also some information on the ancient Fayum encaustic portraits,
Jasper Johns use of encaustic (an interview with him) and examples of the encaustic
work of certain other contemporary artists using encaustic techniques and some
using other wax techniques not strictly encasutic
Great April 2, 2008
I am new this this medium. When I ordered this book I could not put it down. I read it in one night. It is packed with a lot of information. I keep refering back it.
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