encaustic
painted with wax colors fixed with heat, or with any process in which colors are burned in.
a work of art produced by an encaustic process.
Origin of encaustic
1Other words from encaustic
- en·caus·ti·cal·ly, adverb
Words Nearby encaustic
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How to use encaustic in a sentence
He works in encaustic, a mix of pigment and hot wax that requires a quick hand and whose immediacy has “a sonic quality,” he told a recent visitor to Hemphill Artworks.
In the galleries: Works of art emerge via waking up with a word in mind | Mark Jenkins | May 21, 2021 | Washington PostPausias was the first to win fame in encaustic painting, although its technical processes had for some time been known.
History of Ancient Art | Franz von Reberencaustic Painting, a kind of painting practised by the ancients, for the perfecting of which heating or burning-in was required.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia | VariousBehind the Retablo some of the old pavement remains, of encaustic tiles in blue, white, and red.
Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain | George Edmund StreetThere is a western gallery, and some seats made of glazed encaustic tiles on each side of the sanctuary.
Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain | George Edmund Street
Upon the adhesion to a smoothly-polished limestone, of an encaustic fat which forms the lines or traces.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Ure
British Dictionary definitions for encaustic
/ (ɪnˈkɒstɪk) ceramics /
decorated by any process involving burning in colours, esp by inlaying coloured clays and baking or by fusing wax colours to the surface
the process of burning in colours
a product of such a process
Origin of encaustic
1Derived forms of encaustic
- encaustically, adverb
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