Our bee-utiful naturally golden encaustic medium is on sale until the end of May, 2013.  This encaustic medium has a fantastic aroma, and is great for mixing colours where the yellow tint will enhance the colour you want… for example: yellows, ochres, warm greens, reds, and a delishous antique white! Not recommended for purples and [...]

Save on our encaustic mediums for a limited time!  Starting August 8th and going until September 10th, we are offering our 5:1 (beeswax:damar resin) mediums at a 25% savings… order on-line at www.waxworksencaustics.com   We’ve also just added the Bernzomatic TS – 1500 Blow torch head to the ‘hot tools’ section of our site… a great [...]

 Just home and letting all the learning sink in from the 6th Annual Encaustic Conference!  Organized by Joanne Mattera and Cherie Mittenthal, I offered a demonstration with Lynette Haggard (me on the iron/heat gun, Lynette on the blow torch… what a team!) and a post-con workshop at Castle Hill/Truro Center for the Arts.  The group [...]

Packing this week for the 6th Annual Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, Mass…. organized by Joanne Mattera and Cherie Mittenthal!  It’s such a great place to learn more about this beautiful medium that so many of us are falling in love with.  I’m teaching a workshop this year on the iron and heat gun with Lynette [...]

 Home from the 5th Annual Encaustic Conference and ready to talk about it on the radio tomorrow in an interview!  www.toginet.com and click on ‘listen live’ to find out about encaustic painting, the wonderful contemporary artists that use this luscious medium and how much I love it… interview takes place on Wed. June 8th at [...]

Join us this weekend, and next (April 30, May 1st, 7th and 8th @ the Alton Mill (www.altonmill.ca) for Spring Awakenings, their yearly celebration of this time of year… there will be hands-on ‘Give it a Whirl!’s  in the hive (studio 201)… with me at 11am, noon, 1pm and 3 pm each day.  I will give [...]

 New Schedule with exciting, never-before-offered workshops and courses!   In response to the demand, there is now an Encaustic 4  and half-day introductory courses to encaustic, a parent/child workshop and the usual Encaustic 1, 2 & 3.  Phew!  Looks like it’s gearing up to be a busy and interesting year… please contact me if you have any [...]

  We’ve had many requests for gift certificates, and are happy to see people using them as a wonderful gift for someone in their life who would like to take a workshop, buy art, and/or some of Waxworks Encaustic supplies.  Call us at 519-323-3437 or 323-7611 to find out how to purchase one.   No minimum amount.