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My Carefully Curated Art Tools, Books, and Supplies!

Carefully Curated Collection of Encaustic Supplies, tools, books and beyond.

Some of my tried-and-true supplies. I hope this helps short-cut your art process for supplies that move the needle. Some of these are ones we used in the Encaustic Painting and Mixed Media Lab Workshop and a few other things I love! 

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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.

Bleached Beeswax-5bs

Unbleached Beeswax

Damar Resin - 1 lb

Damar Resin - 5 lbs

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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.

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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. 

India Inks

   Set

   Black

   White

Pencils

   Derwent water soluble pencils - I totally love these!...

   Set/3 

   Intense Black

Black wing pencils - some of my absolute favorite pencils!

Black wing sharpener- pricey but you’ll love it!

Dip pens - set/2

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

Tim Holtz Ephemera

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)

The Clip Art Book

Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage

Animals; 1419 Copy-right free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc

Animals - Visual Encyclopedia 

Vintage Botanical Illustration

Botanical Art: An Image Archive for Artists & Designers 

Floral Nostalgia Vintage Botanical Cut Out & Collage Book

Cyclopedia Anatomicae

Crap Hound - hands, hearts and eyes

Flowers and Plants: An Image Archive of Botanical Illustrations 

Vintage Book Lover Ephemera

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 

Small mandala stencils

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Misc.

Saral Transfer paper - we used this in the Workshop:

    White 

    Graphite

Paint strainers - essential for straining out bugs, bees, and blubbers ~ inherent in the mixing paint and encaustic medium

 

 

 

 

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