Encaustic Wax and Mediums
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Kama Damar Resin 1 lb $16.05
The dammar resin is a natural resin secreted by trees of the dipterocarpaceae family, specifically those of the genus Shorea, Hopea or Balanocarpus. We find these species in India and in Southeast Asia. The majority of the resin is produced by tapping the trees; however, some of the dammar is also collected as fossilized resin form in the soil. The color of the harvested gum ranges from light to pale yellow, while the fossilized kind is of gray-brown color instead. Chemically gum dammar is a triterpenoid resin containing a large number of triterpenes and their oxidation products.
Close to mastic resin, dammar appeared during the nineteenth century to compensate for the shortage of the first. Of pale yellow appearance, it gives very clear varnishes and mediums, particularly appreciated by painters. Dammar varnish, made from dammar gum mixed with turpentine, was presented as a varnish for fine arts from 1826. Commonly used in oil painting, inside painting mediums during the process as well as in the final picture varnish. Like all natural resins, dammar resin tends to yellow and crack over time, especially if it is left in the dark.
Dammar resin is also used in encaustic painting where it is dissolved in the molten beeswax, which imparts hardness and superior resistance to this type of paint.
Dammar resin is also used in food, as an opacifier or glazing agent (to cover certain foods so that they shine and prevent them from sticking to each other in packaging), as a component of incense, in varnishes and other products as well.
1 in stock
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Kama Damar Resin 1/4 lb $6.45
The dammar resin is a natural resin secreted by trees of the dipterocarpaceae family, specifically those of the genus Shorea, Hopea or Balanocarpus. We find these species in India and in Southeast Asia. The majority of the resin is produced by tapping the trees; however, some of the dammar is also collected as fossilized resin form in the soil. The color of the harvested gum ranges from light to pale yellow, while the fossilized kind is of gray-brown color instead. Chemically gum dammar is a triterpenoid resin containing a large number of triterpenes and their oxidation products.
Close to mastic resin, dammar appeared during the nineteenth century to compensate for the shortage of the first. Of pale yellow appearance, it gives very clear varnishes and mediums, particularly appreciated by painters. Dammar varnish, made from dammar gum mixed with turpentine, was presented as a varnish for fine arts from 1826. Commonly used in oil painting, inside painting mediums during the process as well as in the final picture varnish. Like all natural resins, dammar resin tends to yellow and crack over time, especially if it is left in the dark.
Dammar resin is also used in encaustic painting where it is dissolved in the molten beeswax, which imparts hardness and superior resistance to this type of paint.
Dammar resin is also used in food, as an opacifier or glazing agent (to cover certain foods so that they shine and prevent them from sticking to each other in packaging), as a component of incense, in varnishes and other products as well.
4 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Aliz Crimson 20ml $4.17
- pigment(s): Pr83
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: transparent
1 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Anthra Red 20ml $5.10
- pigment(s): Pr177
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 3
- opacity: transparent
3 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Blue Gray 20ml $4.17
- pigment(s): Pw6, Pbr 6, Pb29
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: opaque
2 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Burnt Sienna 20ml $3.36
- pigment(s): Pbr6
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 1
- opacity: semi-transparent
4 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Cad Yellow Lt 20ml $6.03
- pigment(s): Py35
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 4
- opacity: opaque
2 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Cobalt Blue 20ml $6.03
- pigment(s): Pb28
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 4
- opacity: semi-transparent
2 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Cobalt Cerulean 20ml $6.03
- pigment(s): Pb36
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 4
- opacity: opaque
2 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Cobalt Turq Lt 20ml $6.03
- pigment(s): Pb36
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 4
- opacity: opaque
3 in stock
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Kama Encaustic India Yell Gold 20ml $5.15
- pigment(s): Py83, Pr101
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 3
- opacity: transparent
3 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Lavender 20ml $4.23
- pigment(s): Pw6, Pv23
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: opaque
6 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Mars Black 20ml $3.36
- pigment(s): Pbk11
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 1
- opacity: opaque
3 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Naples Yellow Lt 20m $4.23
- pigment(s): Py53
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: opaque
2 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Perm Orange 20ml $4.23
- pigment(s): Po5
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: semi-transparent
1 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Pthalo Blue 20ml $4.23
- pigment(s): Pb15:3
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: transparent
2 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Pthalo Green 20ml $4.23
- pigment(s): Pg7
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: transparent
6 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Pthalo Turq 20ml $4.23
- pigment(s): Pg7, Pb15:3
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: transparent
6 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Quin Magenta 20ml $5.15
- pigment(s): Pr122
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 3
- opacity: transparent
3 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Red Ochre 20ml $3.36
- pigment(s): Pr101
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 1
- opacity: opaque
1 in stock
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Kama Encaustic Sap Green 20ml $5.15
- pigment(s): Pb29, Py83, Py3
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 3
- opacity: semi-transparent
5 in stock
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Kama Encaustic stick 20 ml Bt Umber $3.36
- pigment(s): Pbr6
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 1
- opacity: semi-transparent
3 in stock
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Kama Encaustic stick 20 ml Cd Or Lt $6.03
- pigment(s): Po20
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 4
- opacity: opaque
3 in stock
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Kama Encaustic stick 20 ml Ch Ox Gr $4.23
- pigment(s): Pg17
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: opaque
6 in stock
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Kama Encaustic stick 20 ml Hansa YL $5.15
- pigment(s): Py3
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 3
- opacity: opaque
2 in stock
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Kama Encaustic stick 20 ml Hnk Pink $4.23
- pigment(s): Pr122, Pw4
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: semi-transparent
3 in stock
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Kama Encaustic stick 20 ml Neutral $3.36
- pigment(s): –
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 1
- opacity: transparent
5 in stock
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Kama Encaustic stick 20 ml Paynes G $4.23
- pigment(s): Pb29, Pbk7
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 2
- opacity: semi-transparent
1 in stock
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Kama Encaustic stick 20 ml Rw Sienn $3.36
- pigment(s): Py43
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 1
- opacity: semi-transparent
2 in stock
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Kama Encaustic stick 20 ml Yell Och $3.36
- pigment(s): Py43
- vehicule: naturally bleached beeswax and dammar resin
- series: 1
- opacity: opaque
1 in stock
