Welcome Back To The Vendor Room in Provincetown!
R&F Handmade Paints
Kingston, New York
Founded in 1988 by artist and paint-maker Richard Frumess, R&F Handmade Paints manufactures two unique and heavily pigmented paint lines: our classic wax-based encaustic paint and linseed-oil based Pigment Sticks®. Located in Kingston, New York, R&F is committed to producing the highest quality paints with materials meticulously sourced from around the world.
R&F Pigment Sticks® are oil paint manufactured with enough wax for the paint to be molded into stick form. They allow the painter to draw or paint directly onto a surface without brushes, palettes, paint tubes, or solvents. R&F uses only the basic traditional materials: natural wax (beeswax & plant wax), linseed oil, and pigment. The result is an oil stick with a lipstick soft consistency.
Pigment Sticks® have none of the additives, extenders, substitutes, or facilitators that are commonly used in industrial production. While the use of these adulterants can save time and reduce cost, they lower the quality of the paint. To do without them it is necessary to create a very precise balance of the ingredients. Consequently R&F's formulas are complex and manufacturing is labor-intensive, handmade in small batches, carefully milled and molded.
In addition to encaustic paint and Pigment Sticks, R&F offers encaustic medium, impasto modeling wax, heated 12” or 16” palettes, heat guns with adjustable temperature settings, palette cups, palette thermometers, heat gun nozzles, hake brushes, gesso, soy wax, damar, and beeswax.
R&F produces a range of educational resources from their blog Unique Color, to downloadable PDFs on safe working temperatures and ventilation to combining oil and wax and encaustic bloom. They have a YouTube channel with helpful demo videos and a weekly e-mail newsletter with tips, tricks, and introductions to artists around the world. For nearly 30 years, they have offered encaustic and Pigment Stick workshops in their Kingston facility. This past year, R&F launched Brown Pink - a rental space and artist residency program.
President Darin Seim and Dietlind Vander Schaaf will be in the Vendor Room this year where you will find both of R&F's paint lines at discounted prices, as well as limited edition colors and a raffle.
Enkaustikos Wax Art Supplies
Rochester, New York
Since 1996, Enkaustikos’ mission has been to produce the highest quality professional encaustic paint. To make the best paint we begin with the best ingredients. We only use Pharmaceutical grade beeswax, along with the highest quality damar resin; then after filtering we add artist-grade pigments that are lightfast, heat stable, and offer exceptional purity of color. We are proud to offer you a selection of 88 colors to choose from. 73 are single pigment paints that provide you with an opportunity to finely hone your color sensibility. Dan Sywalski, our paint maker for over 17 years, brings experience to the process. Dan uses modern milling technology to shear our pigment to its ultimate particle size. Each color has been formulated to achieve the maximum pigment concentration while maintaining good handling properties. Use either our original wax medium or XD to extend the pigment load to your satisfaction. Whether you want to make beautiful transparent glazes, apply thin veils of color or build thick opaque layers of color in your artwork, Enkaustikos paints has you covered.
Enkaustikos Paints
Enkaustikos professional paints are offered in several formats. At last years Encaustic Conference we brought a sampling of Wax Snaps to get your input, the feedback was tremendous and this year, we are excited to bring our full line of Wax Snaps. We also offer Hot Cakes (45ml) already in tins, our convenient Hot Sticks (13 ml) designed with direct application and printmaking in mind and our one ounce (29 ml) discs, sold in any size from 1 to 16 ounces, great for bulk purchasing and workshop settings.
We will bring all of our sundries and plenty of beeswax, damar resin and both our mediums available in bulk packaging for even greater savings.
Slotted and hog bristle brushes
In addition to our paints and sundries, we will have all of our Enkaustikos aluminum printing plates, Enkaustikos hog bristle brushes, and our custom made Hot Tools. Our Hot Tools are handcrafted in solid brass. We offer unique brass bristle brushes that keep your encaustic paints liquefied until applied to the substrate, actually fusing while you paint. They come in a variety of different profiles so that you can create a wide range of applications from the smallest of details to painterly brushstrokes.
The Slotted Brush is designed to apply large, bold, textured strokes of wax color rapidly. The slotted design allows the hot air of the heat gun to flow through the brush, keeping paint fluid during application. The Enkaustikos Hog Bristle brushes are true work horses made from bristles originally chosen for masonry sign painters.
Paper Connection
Providence, RI
In 1995, Lauren Pearlman Sugita founded Paper Connection International, LLC, a Providence-based importer and distributor of specialty art papers. Paper Connection has become an essential paper resource in North America, stocking mainly Eastern papers made from sustainable fibers.
For more than three decades, Paper Connection has not only been providing high-quality papers but also expert technical assistance to the art and design world. We're here to help you navigate the world of paper and find the appropriate paper for your process and the best paper to tell your story!
If you’d like to visit us, our showroom is conveniently located right off I-95 and is by appointment only.
Contact us at (401) 454-1436 or email us at contactus@paperconnection.com for more details.
With over 30 years of experience mixing encaustic color, our paints showcase the translucency and luminosity intrinsic to the encaustic medium. Our lush encaustic paints are versatile enough for the master artist, yet affordable enough for the beginner.