All the World Stops

This listing is for an 8”x12” encaustic cyanotype on cradle board panel. It features a cyanotype of two women and a man, dressed in 1950’s era clothing, standing in a rocky field, facing a massive version of the moon. It was developed and then encased in encaustic wax, then the clothing of the people in the image was colored using pan pastels which were fused into the wax.
Encaustic is the ancient practice of painting with molten beeswax on a ridged, absorbent substrate. The ancient Greeks used encaustic wax to seal the hulls of their sea vessels. There are still existing encaustic paintings that are 15 centuries old, the Fayum Mummy Portraits. If cared for correctly, encaustic art will last long after we are forgotten. This is the first known form of painting- before oil paint, and well before acrylics, humans were painting with molten beeswax mixed with tree resin and earth pigments.