About this Event
In this workshop, participants will enjoy a creative process of designing a mixed media work of art incorporating collage and mark-making in a variety of media, with an encaustic wax finish for a unique and captivating result.
Building the Design
We will work with collage materials, pens, high-contrast photocopies, and
other mixed media materials to create a foundation for our encaustic overlay.
Making an Encaustic Sampler
Encaustic wax is a painting formula handed down from the ancient cultures of Egypt
and Greece. It is made by mixing beeswax with tree resin and, when cured, can endure
for centuries just as well as oil paint or tempera.
Encaustic Sampler Objectives:
We make a sampler to give you the opportunity to explore the medium and to learn its
awesome properties as well as its limitations before you use it in a project.
On your small piece of Encaustibord, you will explore the intrinsic nature of working with
encaustic wax and mixing it with other techniques such as drawing, painting and
collage.
We will incorporate the following techniques into your sampler:
1. Drawing with Sharpie pen
2. Drawing with charcoal or dry pastel or oil pastel
3. Drawing with pencil / ink
4. Collaging tissue paper
5. Collaging a line of text or photo (no slick magazine paper)
6. Stamping into the wax and/or forcing oil color into the incised lines
All supplies included. No artistic experience needed. Limited to 8 attendees.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Ardest Gallery, 25200 Grogans Park Drive, The Woodlands, United States
USD 92.55
