Impasto Wax...We blend our highest quality pharmaceutical grade beeswax with a pure translucent white microcrystalline wax to produce an inexpensive way to build up texture quickly and effectively. Our impasto wax offers new possibilities allowing you to inexpensively add actual dimension to encaustic painting. Using the âslip and scoreâ technique common in ceramics surfaces can become immediately sculptural by applying chunks of wax in any form to the wax surface and then painting over with encaustic wax paint layers to encapsulate. âSlip and Scoreâ simply refers to the method of scoring or scratching lines into the surface of the chunk of wax that will be attached to the substrate. After the lines are scratched in simply dip the scored side into molten wax and quickly stick it to the substrate. The lines provide extra surface areas to ensure a solid bond between the two sections. Facts on Microcrystalline Wax...We selected a high quality microcrystalline wax because it is a complicated carbon based wax characterized with branched cyclic chains which allow it to blend better with beeswax and oil colors than paraffin waxes which are simple straight carbon based chains. Microcrystalline wax is also more flexible than paraffin making it ideal for building up layers of textures on your painting. This ensures the quality and integrity of your paint film. Microcrystalline wax melts at a higher temperature (170 to 180 degrees F) than our paints and beeswax (143 to 150 degrees) allowing you to apply encaustic paint over the modeled surface with minimal disturbance to the bottom sculpted surface.Microcrystalline wax will yellow over time from exposure to UV so it is very important to paint over and encapsulate the impasto wax layer.We offer three basic shapes to work with. The 5 Lb box is filled with various size disks which are approximately 2-1/2 inches in diameter and are 3/4 inch to 1 inch thick. This is the most economical way to purchase impasto wax. These di