Encaustics 101 Workshop

Learn the art of Encaustics in this beginner workshop!

Participants will cover the following:
-Tools and safety.
-A brief history of Encaustics.
-How to set up an easy and inexpensive encaustic space.
-Basic skills: fusing and layering wax.
-Extra Techniques: collage, adding images and mixed media, incising the wax.

Students will leave with 4 completed projects. Having confidence and knowledge in this ancient and luminous medium.

To make your work personal, students should bring ephemera, such as
-Any small doo-dahs you would like to try including in a piece.
-Papers: old dictionary pages, children’s books, sheet music, maps, technical diagrams, maps etc – Not cardstock or glossy magazine pages.
-Fabric, netting, lace, decorative paper napkins, etc.
-Inkjet copies of images or photos on regular copy paper.

Participants will be working in a 4” x 4” to 8” x 8” format.