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.
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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
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
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