Richard Frumess was initially a painter working in a wide variety of mediums when, in 1982, he began manufacturing encaustic paint for Torch Artists Supplies in New York City. In 1988, after Torch had closed, he founded R&F Handmade Paints to ensure the continuance of commercial encaustic paint. Two years later developed Pigment Sticks.
His color workshops grew out of an investigation into the underlying principles of R&F’s color line that had been developed intuitively over the years by him and R&F’s staff. The workshops are intended to ground color theory in the material characteristics of individual colors in any medium.
Current courses by Richard Frumess
Creating Color Effects with Encaustic
Conversation in Color
