Encaustic

The medium of False Start by Jasper Johns is made by combining color with hot wax. This medium is hard to use because the artist needs to create the painting before the hot wax cools. In other words, they need to work quickly. The words written within False Start show how quickly Jasper Johns needed to work because he used a stencil to write them in. Jasper Johns began doing encaustic paintings because he found them extremely interesting. He liked the idea of being able to experiment and then repeat the idea over and over again.