encaustic

How To Use encaustic In A Sentence

• She has also worked in platinum, gum dichromate, and encaustics.
• In a recent project in a Victorian residence, for instance, Farrell used a silver-effect encaustic plaster surface in the hallway, stairs and landing.
• We studied the artist's technique, and the students recognized similarities between van Gogh's painting style/brushwork and the look of encaustic painting.
• The Entrance Hall at Cliveden was, until 1904, embellished by a pair of Minton encaustic tiled floors.
• The authorities most often cited — Pliny especially — did not write in sufficient detail to replicate any technique with certainty, and so the eighteenth-century encaustic-painting revival supported several rival theories. reference Was wax supposed to be the vehicle for the color, or was a separate layer applied to the face or reverse of the work after completion to produce a nonreflective luster and make color more permanent? The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
• Although some mummy portraits were done with tempera, encaustic was particularly suited for the realistic representation of human skin because of the medium's thicker texture and luminosity.
• Scherman started painting with wax in 1974, when, as a student at the Royal College of Art in London, he first saw Jasper Johns's encaustic paintings.
• The company introduces the domestic first-class production equipment, uses the international leading encaustic tile production technology and the coloring craft, presently has production base two.
• He has reworked these motifs hundreds of times in drawings and prints, encaustic and oil, using various colours and then stripping the images of all colour, repeating patterns and sometimes turning them upside-down.
• The large square Encompass exemplifies the artist's elaborate and expert use of encaustic.