Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art With Wax

By Lissa Rankin

By interviewing 60+ artists who work with wax in studio visits across the country, Rankin has compiled Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art With Wax, a manual of encaustic technique based on how artists are interpreting the use of wax in the fine art world of encaustic. With step-by-step instructions and detailed photographs of the artists at work, the book will help artists master the medium, while profiling the art of prominent painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers who work with the medium.

The book includes sections on the basics of encaustic, creating and embellishing smooth surfaces, building textured surfaces, working reductively, sculptural techniques, working large with encaustic, encaustic monotype, and combining encaustic with photography, printmaking, and ceramic techniques.

Artists who have contributed art and/or techniques include Natalie Abrams, Tracey Adams, Jhina Alvarado, Rifka Angel, Ed Angell, Nancy Azara, Eve Marie Bergren, Kim Bernard, Pamela Blum, Miles Conrad, Danielle Correia, Kris Cox, Michael David, Kristy Deetz, Christel Dillbohner, Betsy Eby, Jeri Eisenberg, Carlos Estrada-Vega, Monique Feil, Bill Fisher, Kevin Frank, Lorrie Fredette, Anna Gagne, Lorraine Glessner, Eileen Goldenberg, Ruth Gooch, Reni Gower, Gail Gregg, Dusty Griffith, Valerie Hammond, Christy Hengst, Cari Hernandez, Howard Hersh, Robin Hill, Heather Hutchison, Jasper Johns, Katsy Johnson, Sierra Jolie, Barbara Kerwin, Matt Klein, Martin Kline, Kandy Lozano, Mari Marks, Alexandre Masino, Chris McCauley, Timothy McDowell, James Meyer, Shawna Moore, Laura Moriarty, Sylvia Netzer, Gay Patterson, Mark Perlman, Fawn Potash, Richard Purdy, Debra Ramsay, Mark Rediske, Chris Reilly, Paula Roland, Jeff Schaller, Andrea Schwartz-Feit, Donna Sharrett, Adele Shaw, Thea Schrack, Michelle Stuart, Rodney Thompson, Theodora Varnay Jones, Tina Vietmeier, Elise Wagner, Daniella Woolf, Hiro Yokose, and Karl Zerbe.

Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art With Wax will be published August 10, 2010 by Watson Guptill, a subsidiary of Random House.  If you would like to place your name on the mailing list, please register your information in the Guest Book section. You can also pre-order the book via Amazon by clicking here.