Wax art

ARTWORK DAILY🎨 on Instagram: "This artist makes flowers from wax, solely using their fingers and cold water. Through molding and shaping, they transform wax into beautiful blossoms. When immersed in cold water, the wax hardens, preserving the flowers indefinitely. Artist: Xiannu1208xiannv & 881754330 on Douyin #art #diy #flowers #wax"

swiss artist urs fischer sculpts a larger-than-life wax sculpture of dasha zhukova, presented at london's gagosian gallery.

This wax sculpture of a sleeping woman was made with several wicks, turning her into a giant candle (not to be mistaken for the soap woman of the Mutter Museum).…

All wax. Artist: Urs Fischer

By Kellie Day in Art Tutorials > Painting Tutorials I’ve always been fascinated by encaustic art and the eerie, soft look it has. All those layers of wax are incredibly intriguing, and up until recently, were a complete mystery to me as to how they were created. Just to give you an example, here’s a close-in detail of an encaustic piece entitled Fire Divided by encaustic artist and teacher Shawna Moore. Amazing, isn’t it? So smoky and soft, and textured! For those […]

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Using polyester resin and wax, Rebecca Stevenson creates delicate sculptures with baroque flourishes. Flowers and heirloom tomatoes blossom from the heads and bodies of her human and animal subjects like the ornamental flora in Italian Renaissance paintings. The floral growths sometimes appear as adornments on the living body, but in some of her works, they look like the agents of decomposition and regeneration. Take a look at some of Rebecca Stevenson's work after the jump.