R&F Pigment Sticks®
R&F Pigment Sticks® are high quality oil paint with just enough wax added to maintain a solid stick form. To read our blog post on working with R&F Pigment Sticks®, click here.
Translucent Color Set
R&F's Translucent Color Set features six jewel-toned 40 ml. encaustic paints including Alizarin Orange, Alizarin Crimson, Egyptian Violet, Indian Yellow, Viridian, and Ultramarine Blue.
Chromatic Tones Set
R&F's Chromatic Tones Color Set features a palette of six pale tones in 40 ml encaustic paints. It includes Brilliant Yellow Extra Pale, Celadon Green, Cerulean Grey, Green Gold Pale, Scarlet Extra Pale, and Ultramarine Blue Pale.
Opaque Color Set
Explore color mixing with R&F’s Opaque Color Set featuring six 40 ml. encaustic paints: Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Red Medium, Chromium Oxide Green, Cobalt Blue, Titanium White, and Ivory Black.
The Phthalos
Richly pigmented, our encaustic paints can be extended with encaustic medium to create luminous glazes. Add some Titanium White to produce vibrant tints.
Iridescent Colors
R&F Handmade Paints makes eight metallic encaustic paints. Each of these can be added to our transparent paints to create luminous iridescent colors.
R&F Blending Medium
R&F Blending Medium is ideal for glazing colors, can be worked directly into a color to increase the color's transparency, or used to blend colors together on the surface. To learn more visit our blog here.
R&F Blending Medium
In this demo video we highlight basic application, as well as a technique using tape and medium to create a clean edge on the surface of your encaustic painting.
R&F Soy Wax
This video demonstrates two ways to clean your encaustic brushes using R&F soy wax, which offers an excellent alternative to paraffin. For tips and tricks on working with soy wax, visit our blog.
R&F Encaustic Gesso
R&F encaustic gesso provides a brushable white ground that dries to a ready-to-paint absorbent surface. Learn more about our encaustic gesso on our blog here.
Fusing
Fusing is an important part of encaustic painting. To read our blog post on fusing with step by step instructions, click here.
Encaustic Scraping
Scraping is a technique some artists use with encaustic to reveal the history of layers and colors in their painting. To learn more, read our blog post here.
Encaustic Collage
Encaustic medium allows you to collage lightweight papers relatively easily. In this demo video, we demonstrate three different ways to do so. For helpful tips and tricks, click here.
Transparency & Opacity
The opacity of a paint describes how it interacts with light. To learn more on the subject, visit our blog.
How To Do A Pour
An encaustic pour offers you a quick and relatively easy way to get a smooth, even surface. You can find step by step instructions on our blog here.
Encaustic & Stencils
Stencils offer artists a range of ways to create interesting patterns and marks that can be responded to and buried beneath additional layers of encaustic paint and medium. Read our post here.
Encaustic & Ink
Ink can be used in conjunction with encaustic to create a variety of effects. In this video, we demonstrate four different ways. Check out our blog for more info here.
Image Transfer
Image transfers can be done on encaustic easily, allowing you to look through an image to the underlying surface below. You can find step by step instructions here.
Accretion
Accretion refers to the technique of dry brushing layers of encaustic on top of one another to build texture. Visit our blog post on the subject here.
Encaustic Inlay
A brief demonstration of inlay technique in encaustic painting using Cadmium Green and Malachite Green. Read our blog post with instructions here.
Encaustic & Leaf Stencil
This demo video shows you how to use fresh leaves to create impressions in encaustic. You can find more info and images here.