Encaustic sculpture

Encaustic painting by Stephanie Roberts-Camello

Shari Replogle Artist Encaustic Painting and Mixed Media Assemblage Art

Local Artist, Beeswax Candles

For my first five years working in encaustic, I took pleasure in making the surface of my paintings smooth and bubble free. I loved the process and the seductive feel of my finished pieces. Eventually though, I needed texture and sculptural elements to tell my story. I had begun a series of paintings showing evidence of time passing and the complexity of accumulated years: walls peeling, layers revealed, rough textures. I experimented by embedding canvas and papers in wax. That worked fairly…

One of the aesthetic pleasures of working with encaustic medium is the smooth, rich surface that seems to make the artwork glow. But that doesn't mean encaustic art has to be flat. Encaustic village by Jan Avellana. The only requirements for encaustic substrates is that they must be rigid and porous. Porosity helps the wax bond…

Now that’s a muscular mussel! I love building oversized sculptures using encaustic. It really highlights the nacred beauty inside these crustaceans. This one is made of wax on tyvek.

Untitled 2 - Encaustic, fabric and collage on plywood More work today on encaustic paintings. I also used the extra in my pan to make three dimensional works on masonite. Fire - Encaustic on Masonite Water - Encaustic on Masonite Untitled Texture - Encaustic on Masonite Spiral 1 - Three Dimensional Textured Encaustic and Beeswax on Masonite Spikes 1 - Three Dimensional Textured Encaustic and Beeswax on Masonite Your Turn - Do these sculptural works evoke the same reactions as the paintings?…

Gaia Gaia, or Mother Earth, is the name I use for all my sculptural works inspired by biomes, and the flora and fauna contained within. ​I am very inspired by the variety of spectacular forms and...

Kombucha seemed the ideal material for bringing process and concept together. I wanted to translate the notion of time and change through the use of materials that change and transform with time. Linked to this is the idea of temporality and unpredictability.