encaustic paint

Even at these quantities, he said, R&F is the main manufacturer of encaustic paint in the world.

He used his slurpy encaustic paint to make painterly love to his quotidian subjects.

Encaustic paint is made from filtered beeswax, Damar tree resin and pigment.

"White Flag," which fills three joined canvases 4-by-6 1/2 feet, is an icon rich in the textures of an underlayer of newspaper and encaustic paint.

But it is encaustic paint and pigment sticks (R&F's brand name for oil sticks) that get cooked up at R&F.

Applying encaustic paint in thick, swashbuckling strokes, this Toronto-based painter produces self-consciously muscular, melodramatic pictures blending Greek mythology and contemporary kitsch.

Ross Bleckner, Toba Khedoori, Richard Serra, Amy Sillman and many other well-known artists use R&F's pigment sticks, encaustic paint or both.

Using encaustic paint, Mr. David creates sumptuous Color Field paintings in which vaporous, intensely hued, subtly swirling spaces are embodied in satiny smooth wax surfaces that look good enough to eat.

Fierce Bidding for the 'Flag' The Tremaines had bought Johns's "Flag," an icon rich in the textures of an underlayer of newsprint and encaustic paint, shortly after the artist completed the 4-by-6 1/2-foot work 30 years ago.

Since very few people know how to work with encaustic paint, an ancient material that requires special equipment, a heating system and ventilation, R&F began a workshop program in 1995 that offers classes around the country in the use of encaustic and pigment sticks.

According to Richard Frumess, its founder and co-owner, the business produces about 100 cakes of encaustic paint and 300 pigment sticks every day, in two or three colors out of a possible 89, with names like dianthus pink, alizarin orange and Prussian blue.

ON a recent visit to the St. James Theater, on West 44th Street, Mr. Greene tried to persuade Howard Rogut, the general manager for Jujamcyn Theaters, to spend an extra $7,400 for a more expensive but more durable encaustic paint job for a high-traffic area next to the bar.