R&F Encaustic Medium, Purified Beeswax & Damar Resin, 1# Bag

Encaustic medium is an essential component to encaustic painting. It can be used underneath a painting to build up the surface of your substrate, added to paint to extend it or create a glaze, or cast and sculpted in any number of ways. R&F encaustic paint is highly pigmented. Encaustic medium can be added to either opaque or transparent colors to create beautiful glazes and extend colors. If your paint feels thick, try adding some medium. Adding medium to paint helps encaustic paint to flow more smoothly. The more medium you add, the more see through your paint will become. Encaustic medium can be used to create clear layers between sections of your painting, preserving marks, drawings, and other imagery below. Because encaustic is not clear, but has a natural opacity to it, how you use it will affect the appearance of your work. For greater clarity and less opacity, apply thin layers. To make marks recede, creating a sense of optical depth, apply thicker layers. There are many uses for encaustic medium. Encaustic medium can be used to help seal the edges of tape before applying encaustic paint to create a clean line or edge. This is best done as a surface technique because you cannot maintain that clean edge if you apply heat or additional layers of medium to it.