Make it stand out.

That’s exactly what artist Doug Smith does when working through the encaustic art process from beginning to end. Utilizing hot wax that has been colorized with various pigments, encaustic art calls for a versatile type of creativity and skills. It takes 4,000 bees to produce a single pound of beeswax and the real appreciation of these creatures comes when realizing that an average encaustic art piece requires assistance from some 20,000 bees. Beeswax and resin drips from trees are two natural elements that combine in a fiery process to create a masterpiece of encaustic art.