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Encaustic Art - How to paint with wax
©1996 : Search Press 64 pages colour

Encaustic Art: How to Paint with Wax - 1996

This book was written  to try and introduce the ideas of simple creative work using the ready made wax colours of Encaustic Art Block form.

It covers all the basic use of the iron and introduces the stylus, covering abstracts, landscapes, tissue and fabric techniques and stamp usage.

Encaustic Art - The Project Book
©2000 : Search Press 96 pages colour

Encaustic Art: The Project Book - 2002

Moving on, this book was created to open up more ideas about approaches to materials and techniques in encaustic art work.

Lots of different surfaces and many creative potentials are presented for you to explore and adapt to your own styles of molten wax artwork.

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Encaustic Art Hobby Book
©1992 LVR 64 pages with 9 colour plates

This small handbook was the first colour page offering that was written for a Dutch publisher to cover the European market. It is still a good handbook and explains all of the main hobby approaches, iron abstract, landscape, projects, fabric, stamps, etc.