My Carefully Curated Collection: Art Tools, Books, and Supplies!
Encaustic Supplies, tools, books and beyond.
Here are some of my trusted tools to spark your creativity—favorites from the Encaustic Painting and Mixed Media Lab Workshop, plus a few personal must-haves.
Feel free to contact me if you need any guidance.
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Paint, Wax, and Resin
Encaustic Paint Sets - R & F - the best paints!
Encaustic Medium from R & F - this is premixed medium. Easy Peasy.
Pouring Pots - 2 qty. I love these. Mine are almost 20 years old! great for making encaustic medium
Aluminum baking pans - for mixing encaustic paint
190 micron paint strainers - essential for mixing medium and paint!
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Griddles
Great Griddle - white surface is awesome. 13 x 26-ish. I have this one
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Heat Gun
Heat gun - this one is great bc it has an integrated stand! I have this one.
Heat gun - mini heat gun. Works well for encaustic!
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Panels/Substrates
8 x 8 Cradled Panels - good size to start with in my encaustic workshop!
Brushes
Chip Brushes - 12qty 2”
Chip Brushes - Variety 24-pack includes 6 each 2", 1.5", 1 & 0.5" chip painting brushes.
Hake Brushes - varied sizes. The loveliest medium spreading brushes!
Natural Bristle brushes set/24 - great for encaustic painting - rounds and flats
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Fire Stuff
Fire Extinguisher - yes, you need one in your encaustic studio!
Fire Blanket - great alternative/addition to a fire extinguisher- Set of 2. Put one in your kitchen
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Color
Alcohol ink sets - check for colorfastness
Pan pastels - a workshop favorite.
Gold pan pastels - Rich metalic gold - gorgeous!
Gold pan pastel - Light metallic gold - also gorgeous!
Water-soluble gel crayons - great for encaustic, stitching, watercolor and more!
India Inks
Pencils
Derwent water soluble pencils - I totally love these!...
Black wing pencils - some of my absolute favorite pencils!
Black wing sharpener- pricey but you’ll love it!
Electric Pencil sharpener - I put off this 27$ purchase for years. Silly me! It's awesome. It had an unfixable jam after 2 years and they shipped a new one pronto. Save your purchase info. 10 year warranty.
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Tools
Pottery Loop tool - my favorite for scraping at and removing wax! We used these in the workshop
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Paper and silk for collage
Collage Paper Collection - really good assortment. We used these in the workshop
Japanese Rice paper - for inkjet printer and collaging
Acid-free tissue paper - great for mounting on copier paper and printing with ink jet printer. I gave you a handout on how to do this during workshop.
Silk for inkjet printer - collage this lovely fabric into your work after printing image. Pricey but beeeutiful.
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Books
The Art of Encaustic Painting - Joanne Mattera (this is my all-time favorite encaustic book)
Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage
Animals; 1419 Copy-right free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc
Vintage Botanical Illustration
Botanical Art: An Image Archive for Artists & Designers
Floral Nostalgia Vintage Botanical Cut Out & Collage Book
Crap Hound - hands, hearts and eyes
Flowers and Plants: An Image Archive of Botanical Illustrations
Ephemera Stickers - use as stickers for collage or take a photo and print other at your desired size
Stickers - 580 count!
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Stencils
Mandala stencils
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Misc.
Saral Transfer paper - we used this in the Workshop:
Paint strainers - essential for straining out bugs, bees, and blubbers ~ inherent in the mixing paint and encaustic medium