Linda Womack Starter Kits from Enkaustikos
Beeswax & Encaustic Paint
Enkaustikos Wax Paints – Beeswax, resin, medium, encaustic paint, specialty tools. If you’re just getting your supplies together you might want to start with one of their “Linda Womack Starter Kits” filled with encaustic medium, paint, brushes, cleaning wax, basic tools and an optional copy of my book, Embracing Encaustic: Learning to Paint with Beeswax. As part of this kit you’ll also get a special price on one of our basic classes to get you started with all the right information.
Dadant & Sons – Pure beeswax, straight from the beekeepers
R&F Handmade Paints – Wax, resin, encaustic paint, tools, pigment sticks
Sinopia – Dry pigments for making your own encaustic paint (Any powdered pigment or powdered substance needs to be handled with both protective gloves and a NIOSH N95 certified dust mask.)
As Life Reveals by Linda Womack
Tools and Supplies
ArtSubstrates.com – Quality cradled wooden panels
Dick Blick – R&F Paint, Encausticbord, brushes, tools, panels
Greeting of Grace – quality dried plants
Kemper Tools – sculpting tools
Polymer Clay Express – sculpting tools
My Favorite Art Books
Embracing Encaustic: Learning to Paint with Beeswax by Linda Robertson Womack
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
I’d Rather Be in the Studio! by Alyson B. Stanfield
The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love by Jackie Battenfield
Additional Resources
Getting Started in Encaustic – by R&F Paints
How and Why to Ventilate Your Studio – by R&F Paints
International Encaustic Artists – The International Encaustic Artists (IEA) is a non-profit, professional artists’ organization funded through membership dues, its education program, as well as corporate and member donations. The membership of IEA includes over 375 artists spanning three continents with members in thirty-four states in the U.S., five provinces in Canada, and artists in Mexico, Europe and Asia.
WaxCentric – An excellent list of tools, supplies and materials about encaustic
