or, more accurately, encaustic gets recognition for being an environmentally friendly medium in this month’s green issue of Art Calendar.
Here’s an excerpt:
Going Green: Improving Your Business and Your Health
by Ted Knutson and Steve Yahn
…Another brush cleaner that is environmentally friendly is soy wax made by R & F Handmade Paints, Inc. of Kingston, New York. Company Gallery Director Laura Moriarty says soy wax is an environmentally-friendly alternative to paraffin, which is a petroleum product, for cleaning brushes that have been used to work with encaustic paints, which are made from a wax-based medium.
Moriarty says the company’s encaustic paints are made from beeswax and damar (tree) resins. The executive adds that the company’s damar resins are made from resins that can be obtained from trees without killing the plants, while some collectors of resins use “slash and burn” to get the substance. For more information and a list of retailers that carry R & F products, go to www.rfpaints.com…
