Gudrun Ploetz

Born in Halle/Germany in 1959, studied mathematics. After the doctor-graduation in 1986 she works in IS-field in Frankfurt/Main. Lives in Bad Nauheim/Hessen, married, two kids.

Although all the live interested in creativ techniques, gudrun started to paint just in 1998, after she saw a presentation of Encaustic Technique, a technique where the painting is made with wax. Visited certain classes at the Encaustic Academy in Weilheim/Teck, where she learned the different techniques of encaustic. Paints mainly landscapes, in last time more in direction abstracts. gudrun paints in spare time, especially at the weekends ore in the evenings. She gets her inspirations mainly during here early morning jogg-outs at the weekends in the area around her living town. In last time she started to work on glass, in creating lead-glass windows.

Always interested in new creativ techniques, tries to combine certain techniques. More paintings from Gudrun Ploetz: www.absolutearts.com/artemisia

**The Encaustic Technique**
	The encaustic wax painting is at least 2500 years old and was practised by the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. It is a very durable art form. You use wax with a high portion of beeswax because of melting. Tools are irons, brushes, iron palettes, always heatable, to bring the melting wax to a special kind of paper, glass, wood, non-absorbent cards and even fabrics. Only using the heatable iron, it is possible to create landscapes with trees, flowers, mountains, water like sees and rivers. It is unbelivable that you can paint flowers in a vase with the firstlooking heavy moving iron. Colours of encaustic paintings are very brilliant, shining and longliving without bleaching, that is the advantage of the wax. Today, comparing with 2500 years ago, there are a lot of modern tools and materials to paint with. Encaustic- Technique is not as known as techniques like aquarell or acryl, but it's starting to get more and more friends. In Germany exists an Encaustic- Art-Society which takes care of making this art public, of exhibitions and the Academie.

The Encaustic Technique

The encaustic wax painting is at least 2500 years old and was practised by the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. It is a very durable art form. You use wax with a high portion of beeswax because of melting. Tools are irons, brushes, iron palettes, always heatable, to bring the melting wax to a special kind of paper, glass, wood, non-absorbent cards and even fabrics. Only using the heatable iron, it is possible to create landscapes with trees, flowers, mountains, water like sees and rivers. It is unbelivable that you can paint flowers in a vase with the firstlooking heavy moving iron. Colours of encaustic paintings are very brilliant, shining and longliving without bleaching, that is the advantage of the wax. Today, comparing with 2500 years ago, there are a lot of modern tools and materials to paint with. Encaustic- Technique is not as known as techniques like aquarell or acryl, but it's starting to get more and more friends. In Germany exists an Encaustic- Art-Society which takes care of making this art public, of exhibitions and the Academie.