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.
About the Author
Joanne Mattera is the author of several craft and art technique books and lives in New York City.
More Details
- Contributor: J Mattera
- Imprint: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
- ISBN13: 9780823002832
- Number of Pages: 144
- Packaged Dimensions: 233x230x14mm
- Packaged Weight: 544
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
- Release Date: 1997-08-01
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Joanne Mattera is the author of several craft and art technique books and lives in New York City.
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