Encaustic Play

Join us in this extravaganza in beeswax! Experience the joy and versatility of this rich, organic medium as Patricia teaches you the basics then builds on these to excite you with numerous techniques that will get you doing everything encaustic. The diversity of this medium offers the artist opportunity to include all mediums and build on skills related to other creative outlets like no other medium can. Demonstration and hands on painting and experimenting is what this workshop is all about. With amply time to play in the wax, ask questions and develop a strong sense on what is possible in the medium, no one will go away without a fever for encaustic!

Kit Fee: $10

Supply List:

• 6 -10 boards no larger than 8x10 to paint on: either Claybord smooth or Plywood panels
• A few Oil bar or oil paint
• scissors
• Paper towel
• Wax paper for wrapping completed painting for transportation
• Latex or rubber gloves
  
  The following items are all suggestions: it will be important in the journaling process that you bring things, tools and elements that mean something to you. Think through the list and pull together things you’ll be able to translate into a story about you in the wax.
  
  
• Carving tools: Razor blades, scrapers, palette knives, pottery tools, cookie cutters-any metal that will cut into or carve the wax
• Impression makers: Screen, hardware, natural materials, scrapbooking stuff
• Collage material: Old paintings, decorative papers, fabric, yarn, string, wire, beads
• Image transfers: zerox copied images of photos, numbers, words
  
  (Be sure in using words/numbers that you print off in reverse image-this is necessary for the transfer. Also, the copy must be a zerox copy or a laser printer image, not ink jet-copy your ink jet images) black and white or color-bring both)
  
  
• Found objects or natural elements
• rusty metal, dried leaves, sticks, cones, wire
  
  Teacher will bring:
• Heated palettes
• Heat guns
• Beeswax
• Encaustic paints
• Brushes
• Some oils
• Sample board