Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is a technique that involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. This method has been around for centuries, but it has seen a resurgence in contemporary art due to its unique texture and vibrant colors.

The encaustic paint or medium is extremely easy to make. To make the encaustic medium you only need two materials: beeswax and damar resin. If you want to colour it, you also need powder pigments

Capable of being polished to a high gloss, it can be modelled, sculpted, and combined in mixed-media works with mixed media. Most important, it cools almost immediately, with minimum drying time, yet it can always be reworked. And as beeswax is impermeable, it will not deteriorate, or darken or turn yellow, and encaustic paintings need not be protected under glass. Encaustics are also environmentally safer, as they emit no toxic fumes, and do not require the use of solvents. Their sole disadvantage is their need to be kept in a molten state, although modern tools have made this a relatively trivial task.