Design Your Layers
Before You Touch
the Wax.
WaxLayer is built for encaustic artists — plan your panel size, organize your physical layers, assign paper types, and receive print-ready cut sheets sized exactly right.
Built by an encaustic artist · No credit card required · Join the early studio list
"Right now, a single encaustic collage takes three or four separate programs just to plan."
Generic software, wrong workflow
Photoshop and Canva are built for screens, not physical wax panels. You spend more time fighting the tool than designing your art.
Layers exist only on screen
Digital layers and physical paper layers are completely different things. No tool tracks which elements go on which physical layer — or what paper they print on.
Print sizes are always wrong
Generic software silently scales and fits to page. Expensive specialty papers get wasted when an 11×14 panel prints at the wrong size.
From blank canvas to print-ready layers
Five steps. One tool. Built around the way encaustic artists actually work.
Choose Your Panel Size
Select from standard sizes (5×5 to 13×19") or enter custom dimensions. The canvas matches your physical panel exactly.
Design on a True Canvas
Drag, resize, rotate, and compose elements from the library or your own uploads. Botanicals, animals, vintage objects, and more.
Organize Physical Layers
Add, rename, and reorder physical embedding layers — Background, Mid, Foreground, or whatever your artwork needs. No forced structure.
Assign Paper Types
Tag each layer — rice paper, Photo Rag, Tengucho tissue. The right paper changes how each element reads in the wax.
Get Print-Ready Output
Cut sheets for your printer size, placement guides, layer-order reference. Every dimension preserved. No silent "Fit to Page" scaling.
Your canvas is your panel.
Choose 5×5, 9×12, 13×19" — or custom dimensions up to 13×19". WaxLayer opens a digital canvas that represents the exact proportions of the physical panel you hold in your studio. What you see is what you build.
- 14 standard sizes including 5×5 through 13×19"
- Custom dimensions up to 13×19 inches
- Separate printer paper size from panel size
Panel Sizes
Custom dimensions
Physical Layers — Jazz Piece
Top dancer
Tengucho tissue
Crowd + lamps + music notes
Rice paper
Band + architecture
Photo Rag
Background
Premium printer paper
Layers that match your process.
Every artwork is different. Add, rename, and reorder physical layers freely — a jazz piece might need four, a simple floral might need two. WaxLayer never forces a fixed structure onto your creative vision.
- Name layers anything — Background, Mid, Foreground, or Jazz Band
- Assign different paper types per layer — rice, Photo Rag, Tengucho
- Drag to reorder embedding sequence at any time
Every inch, exactly right.
Tell WaxLayer what printer paper you have — 8.5×11, 11×17, 13×19 — and it generates cut sheets that preserve your exact panel dimensions. No Fit to Page. No surprises. No wasted Tengucho.
- Correctly sized cut sheets for your printer paper
- Physical layer-order guide and placement reference
- Paper-assignment guide so nothing goes on the wrong sheet
Print Output — 9×12" Panel on 8.5×11" Paper
Layer 2 — Rice paper
Ready-made projects to build right now.
Choose a pre-designed encaustic artwork and download everything you need to physically build it — cut sheets, placement guide, layer-order reference, paper recommendations, and a difficulty rating. You supply the studio; we supply the plan.
Join the Early Studio ListJazz at the Blue Note
9×12" panel · 4 layers · Intermediate
Built by an encaustic artist,
for encaustic artists.
WaxLayer is in early development. Join the studio list to shape what gets built first — and be first to use it when the doors open.
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"A tool that speaks your language from the first click."
Photoshop was built for photographers. Canva was built for social media. Silhouette Studio was built for vinyl cutters. WaxLayer is built for one thing: encaustic collage. Every decision — from panel sizing to paper assignment to print output — is designed around the way you actually work.
14+
Standard panel sizes
5
Paper types tracked per layer
1
Tool built for your process