In the quiet darkness just before morning, LSA senior Ariela Steif leans over her work table. Passersby — if there were any — would be presented with a peculiar scene: Framed in the window of her ...

Heat beeswax. Add color pigment. Paint. That's encaustic painting, in a nutshell. But to limit this to such a restrictive definition would be to cheat the creativity, versatility and excitement of the ...

Encaustic painting — the method of heating wax to create layered and captivating works of art — dates back as far as the fifth century B.C. "Nothing But Blue Skies," encaustic and mixed media on ...