"SEE THE WHITE LILIES OF THE COUNTRYSIDE" period.
 The use of bee wax in painting mixtures is one of the most ancient painting techniques
used by the Greeks, Egyptians and Romans. Funerary portraits were discovered in the
Egyptian tombs of the oasis of Fayum. Other encaustic works were made by created by Greek
and Roman artists from the 1st to the 4th century b.c. The discovery of this technique is
credited to Polignoto, a Greek Jonik painter, Aristides and Praxiteles. There are two ways
of painting with bee wax; the hot way (fusion) and the cold way (saponification of the
wax). In these techniques the painting becomes impermeable thanks to the bee wax contained
in the paint mixture endowing resistance to the painting. It is compatible with some
pigments rejected by oils and fresco paintings. There are very few artists who adopt this
technique due to an erroneous belief around the oil technique and more recent
mediums.
Encaustic is superior to oil paintings and surely resists longer under dampness than
oil.
You can paint textures safely without the gloss. Mr. Prata is presently one of the very
few Brazilian artists who make use of and teach this technique.
"Couple"
Encaustic on canvas
80 X 1,20 cm, 1993.
 "Heart"
Encaustic on canvas
50 X 70 cm, 1993.
ON LINE COURSE OF ENCAUSTICS.
Small part of the painting techniques DVD.
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