The FIVE day workshop will be an opportunity to enhance your work with a variety of new techniques, and take it to a new level.to work at a larger scale. For more advanced encaustic painters, Individual instruction and criticism will help you move your encaustic painting to a new level. For those with less experience it will be an opportunity to enhance your basic skills, learn new techniques, and begin to work larger!
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For people with encaustic experience or significant painting experience in other media,
it will be an opportunity to take your work to the next level
Many people stay at a certain level with their encaustic painting because they see working at a larger scale,
or changing their approach, as intimidating. It does present certain challenges, but when you understand how to overcome them, it can be a richly rewarding experience. We will address all aspects of working Larger, from concept, to sketch, to technical concerns at a larger scale, and to finshing. We will cover the following:
The workshop will also review all the basics, including information about how to make paint, about the
commercial paints and their applications, about supports, grounds and techniques: paint application, fusing, glazing,inscribing and mixed media approaches.safety, materials, demos of applying paint, glazing, fusing, How to get that smooth surface! Learn some new techniques: Introducing mixed media, working with
oil bar, pigment, creating lines and texture and image transfer. We will emphasize how these techniques
can be developed to create a unique encaustic language for each student. We will talk (and demo) how to create glaze layers, as well as some special techniques like inscribing and using dry pigment..and, you will leave with a printout containing all the information you need as well as a list of suppliers.   |
