The stylus tools have many tips available. The Stylus Pro has threaded tips and the older single heat model Stylus has straight stem tips. These interchangeable tips enable numerous graphical powers to be explored. Drawing tips and brush heads are the basic graphical tools which allow lines, spots, detailing and shading to be done.

Many creative possibilities are offered by the use of heat, an invisible force, to alter the structure of cold wax (solid) into one of a liquid wax (molten). Nothing is lost, only temporarily relaxed into a workable state.

Once the heat is removed then the encaustic wax returns to a solid state and remains like that unless reheated. Itandrsquo; s a magical experience and with more practice can be extremely rewarding to explore. Applying molten wax colours with the iron can spread, tool and fuse a single layer creation beautifully.

Starting encaustic art is as simple as deciding to start and then getting hold of a stylus, the iron, the wax colours, some cards and a place to work. Even your very first card experiment could be something that you cannot bear to part with!