Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax [Paperback]

Lissa Rankin (Author)

Book Description

Release date: August 10, 2010

With a history that stretches back to the hauntingly beautiful mummy portraits of Greco-Roman Egypt, encaustic art is now enjoying a renewal of popularity among artists and art lovers alike. Today, museums are staging exhibitions of encaustic art, workshops in the technique are thriving, and art collectors and dealers are assimilating encaustic art into their collections and galleries.
 
The word encaustic is taken from the Greek and means “to burn in.” In the encaustic process, pigmented wax is applied and then fused to a surface with heat. The result is a broad range of surface effects and a luminous translucency that is unique to the encaustic medium. Encaustic Art is a complete resource for artists who wish to learn to create fine art with wax. It features step-by-step techniques with easy-to-understand instructions and detailed illustrations, stunning examples of encaustic works of art (including sculpture), along with practical advice and thoughtful aesthetic observations from more than 60 professional artists working in the encaustic medium.
 

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About the Author

LISSA RANKIN’s encaustic paintings and sculptures are represented in prestigious galleries and museums in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta. During her artistic career, she has developed an international reputation as an expert on encaustic and has been invited by a variety of art schools, conferences, workshops, and artists’ retreats to speak on encaustic art. Trained as an OB/GYN physician, her art reflects life’s events, such as birth and loss, and her continued work as a physician breathes life into her art.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill; 1 edition (August 10, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823099288
• ISBN-13: 978-0823099283
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.6 x 10.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,754 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lissa Rankin, M.D. is a physician whose research led her to discover that our bodies have natural self-repair mechanisms that can be activated or disabled based on thoughts, beliefs, and feelings that originate in the mind. She is on a mission to heal our broken health care system, help patients play a more active role in healing themselves, and encourage the health care industry to embrace and facilitate, rather than resist, the body's self-healing capacities. Lissa has written 3 books, speaks around the world, blogs at LissaRankin.com, paints professionally, and founded the Whole Health Medicine Institute, a training program for health care providers. She leads a mentoring program for visionaries, founded the wellness communities HealHealthCareNow.com and OwningPink.com, and teaches online programs, such as "Find Your Calling" with Dr. Martha Beck and Amy Ahlers, and "Visionary Ignition Switch," an online business school for visionaries co-created with Amy Ahlers.

Her work has been featured extensively in the national media, including O magazine, The New York Times, CNN, Health, Women's Health, Self, Forbes, The Chicago Tribune, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan.

You can follow her on Twitter at @lissarankin or at Facebook.com/LissaRankin.

Lissa lives in Marin County, California with her husband and daughter.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Encaustic Book August 19, 2010

By C. Klich

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This book is for the beginner as well as the professional encaustic artist. It offers so many ideas and great photos. Many techniques are covered along with a wealth of ideas that I haven't even thought of yet. I am a professional artist and instructor and will definitely recommend this book to my students. There are gallery shots as well as close-up details photos and artists working in their studio. I would love to see a companion book to this one that goes into even more detail on the techniques. Great work Lissa!

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! August 12, 2010

By Dianne Erickson

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This book has it all, beautiful photos, great basic information, and the usual encaustic techniques but it goes much further. Using wax for sculpture, printmaking and much more. The quality of the book is really good too, nice paper and lots of great color photos. If you want to learn the basics, or expand your work in wax, I totally recommend this book. You won't be disappointed.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars a work of art in itself! August 15, 2010

By Rodney Thompson

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I was up late last night looking through the book and savoring every page. What a wonderful creation! Lissa has integrated the beauty and excitement of encaustic art with an excellent and enjoyable instruction manual as well as sharing the personal touch and variety of individual artists and their studios, all in an aesthetically attractive layout. It is a must for anyone curious about encaustic as well as a comprehensive reference for even the experienced artist working with encaustic! I am honored and proud to have been included in this masterpiece of a book.