In this innovative class you will oversee the marriage of textiles and encaustic wax medium. You will learn how to create fabric with your favorite images and form stiff wall panels, ready to be adorned with stitch work and your best bits and baubles. Encaustic wax medium will be added to these walls to give them strength and a lovely finish. Sew up the sides with waxed linen thread, add a roof and you will have a wonderful little house to set on a shelf or mantelpiece. The best part is placing an electric votive inside the house …sit back and watch the light glow and flicker through the waxed walls!
Supply List:
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Awl
- Ruler
- Favorite trims and treasures
- Favorite colors of embroidery thread
Optional:
- Thin gauge metal from candy, tobacco, cookie tins
- Tin shears (Fiskars Microtip Soft Touch scissors work well)
- Hand drill (Fiskars is a good one)
- Drilling surface (block of wood, etc)
Teacher will supply:
- Encaustic medium
- Brushes
- Waxed linen thread
- Needles
- Extra fabric
Kit fee $10 includes:
- Preprinted fabric panels
- Miniature nuts and bolts
- Electric votive
A Little About ME
Stephanie Jones Rubiano is a native Austinite who graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M at Galveston with a Bachelors of Science in Marine Biology. She worked as an environmental scientist for a major drilling company in Houston, TX for five years after that. Therefore, it stands to reason that she has now chosen art as her career path. She is a mixed-media artist who enjoys using antique photographs, real butterfly wings and a variety of uncommon objects in her work. Her work has graced the covers of magazines and books as well as been the subject of articles and how-to projects.
