Materials List for Post-Conference Workshop



Encaustic Painting Online

Fall 2020

Instructor: Tracy Spadafora

Contact: spad4@

Materials List

*Please refer to the Materials and Equipment list for suggestions on brands and places to purchase equipment and materials.

Equipment needed for the workshop:

• Hot palette with a temperature control that will heat to at least 200 degrees farenheit. The most affordable hot palette is a electric pancake griddle, or electric fry pan, which has a temperature control. Warming trays are also fine if they heat to at least 200 degrees.

• Heat gun for fusing

• Aluminum Cups for melting wax (can use recyled cat food or tuna containers, or commercial tins sold by encaustic companies)

• Brushes & Mark Making Tools – (Brushes must be natural hair- synthetic brushes will melt on the heat)

• Scissors and/or other cutting tools

• Palette thermometer – I would highly recommend getting one of these to make sure your palette is at a safe workign temperature.

Materials needed for workshop

• Encaustic Paint (your choice of colors and quantities)

* Encaustic Medium (for transparent layers and glazes)

• Paraffin Wax for cleaning encaustic brushes

• Wax paper

• Refined linseed oil or safflower oil - for wiping oil paint

• Oil Paint (or very soft oil paint sticks, for trying the oil and wax technique)

• Drawing Media (pencil, charcoal, oil pastels, etc.., for transfer and to experiment with)

• Black & White and Color Photo Copies - from a self-serve laser (toner based) photo copy machine (Staples and Office Max have Xerox machines that work well for this). * Note - usually “fresher” (more recently printed) copies are easier to transfer. Copies from your ink jet printer will not work for transfer but can be used for collage.

• Collage Materials - of any kind to use in your work, organic or inorganic

(decorative papers, drawings, prints, fabrics, junk mail, small objects, dried flowers, leaves, etc..,) *Note – items for collage work best if they are flat, absorbent, and light weight. If printing photographs, absorbent matte paper is preferred. Photos printed on glossy or satin papers will not work well for collage because they cannot absorb the wax.

• Panels / Painting Supports

All painting panels for encaustic should be rigid and absorbent. You should not use stretched canvas, acrylic primed supports (including acrylic gesso), or oil primed supports. Make sure larger panels are braced so they won’t warp.

Braced wooden painting panels make great supports for encaustic. They are easy to find and very affordable. I would recommend starting small if you haven’t worked with encautsic before (approx. 8 x 10 in. – 11 x 14 inches).

Some other possible supports are plywood, luan, hollow-core door, or commercially manufactured products such as Encaustic Board.

Other suggested materials:

*Note these materials are suggested only and not necessary for the workshop

• Photographs printed on matte photo paper, prints, watercolor paintings, drawings, etc.., these items will be mounted to board and layered over with wax.

• Joss Paper or Guilding Foils – for the transfer technique

• Vinyl lettering (press type), carbon paper, or other transfer papers.

• Paper stencils / metal stamps

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