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an archival new panel made for the unique demands of encaustic painting only encausticbord has a ready to use surface formulated for the unique demands of encaustic painting and mixed media encaustic gesso is applied to ampersand s sealed hardbord panel to form a bright smooth and velvety surface that is ready to use with the ancient technique of encaustic painting the ground is not only heat resistant and highly absorbent but also holds tight to layers of wax and collage without the fear of cracking or separation encausticbord is available in 5 profiles 1 8 flat 1 4 flat 7 8 cradle 1 5 cradle and 2 deep cradle a creative collaboration between ampersand and r f handmade paints this creative collaboration began in 2008 when the two manufacturers authorities in their respective fields of wood painting panels and encaustic paint colors started working together to dream up the perfect surface for encaustic paints this combination of ampersand s archival panel coating technology and r f s expertise in encaustics led to encausticbord a unique wood panel that has the tooth to hold encaustic and mixed media unlike any other surface why do you need a surface for encaustic richard frumess from r f handmade paints explains when i began painting in encaustic in the early eighties one of my first questions was what can i paint on in 1988 i began building a business manufacturing encaustic paint and in 23 years this question remains one of the most commonly asked the answer has been that a support should be dimensionally stable it should be as absorbent as possible it should be heat resistant plywoods and hardboards were able to fill this purpose if you wanted a white background however you would have to mount watercolor paper to your panel or use the labor intensive rabbit skin glue gesso method happily when we joined forces with ampersand we were able to craft a one word answer encausticbord encausticbord comes with a smooth uniform white ground with the tooth and absorbency of