encaustic

He works in encaustic, a mix of pigment and hot wax that requires a quick hand and whose immediacy has “a sonic quality,” he told a recent visitor to Hemphill Artworks.

Pausias was the first to win fame in encaustic painting, although its technical processes had for some time been known.

Encaustic Painting, a kind of painting practised by the ancients, for the perfecting of which heating or burning-in was required.

Behind the Retablo some of the old pavement remains, of encaustic tiles in blue, white, and red.

There is a western gallery, and some seats made of glazed encaustic tiles on each side of the sanctuary.

Upon the adhesion to a smoothly-polished limestone, of an encaustic fat which forms the lines or traces.