Description

Embracing the Beauty and Complexity of the Ancient Art of Encaustic: Painting with Beeswax, Resin, and Pigments By Vera Ranguelova Vera Ranguelova is an encaustic artist. Encaustic is a unique technique that involves beeswax, damar resin, oil, or dry pigments applied to wood using a propane torch. Vera has been honing her skills as an encaustic artist since 2017. Vera Ranguelova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She moved to Iowa City, IA, where she earned her BA and MA at the University of Iowa. After 20 years in Seattle and a career in design and marketing for health care and medical devices, Vera is back in Iowa City, dedicated to her passion for encaustic art. She is interested in the beauty and complexity of patterns: imagined, tangible, or defined by culture. She paints with a propane torch, a mixture of beeswax, damar resin, and dry pigments dissolved in the molten wax. Wax is a unique painting material: it melts or hardens in surprising forms. Smooth like glass and rough like rocks, wax challenges the idea of perfection, plays with light, and creates space.

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AR at Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center