About this Event
Captivating Encaustic/ 2-DAY WORKSHOPS/ ALL Supplies Included!
This class is geared towards expanding your creative side by working with encaustic painting- an ancient beeswax-based medium, and combining it with other mediums including watercolor, ink, pigment sticks, collage, and photo transfers.
Specialized instruction will focus on specific ways to make interesting artwork using the art elements and various brushwork techniques including glazing, dry brush, scraping, and layering. All Supplies are included!
Come learn how to work with this sensual medium and create beautiful, luminous, and joyful art. Testimonials
Here Are Just Some Of The Things You Will Learn How To Do:
- Create both Smooth and Textural surfaces.
- Expand your creativity using encaustic gesso, pigment sticks, and mixed media with encaustic.
- Mix colors -for translucent and opaque layers.
- Add layers of collage and ways to create depth in encaustic.
- Learn about sgcraffito and intarsia with encaustic.
- Photo embedding and direct transfers.
- You will leave with 6 small encaustic mixed media paintings that you created in class!
10:00-4:00 PM Saturday/ 1-hr. Lunch break each day. No Experience is necessary. Free easy Parking.
Sign up for 2 together and receive a 10 percent discount. Just enter 2FOR10%OFF/ENCAUSTIC at Checkout. All Supplies are included!
Class Limit 6. (18 years old and up.) Sponsored by Ampersand Art Supply.
Offered one weekend every month. Choose your dates in the dropdown menu
April 20-21 • May 11-12 • June 22-23 • July 13-14 • September 14-15
October 12-13 • November 9-10
Want a weekend not currently listed? Contact me if you have 2 other friends or more to register together for a special edition weekend.
Leslie has taught Encaustic Painting for over 15 years including at The Austin Museum of Art’s Art School at Laguna Gloria, The University of Texas at Austin, BlueMoon Glassworks, and The Athenaeum in La Jolla. She has been awarded multiple special artist project grants in both Austin and San Diego to expand her interdisciplinary work. Her teaching style is upbeat, fun, and informative. You will learn a lot while having a wonderful experience.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Artist Leslie Pierce Studio/ And Something Different Studio Gallery, 2690 Historic Decatur Road, San Diego, United States
USD 550.00