March - April Session Full

Still Life with Pam McCauley
Six Week Class
Tuesdays, March 3 to April 7
9:30am to 12:30pm

Come join me this early spring for still life classes. We will have one or two beautiful still life’s to paint every week. While I will always be focusing on color and composition, I’d love to share some of the new approaches I’ve been working on this year!  Hope to see you there!  - Pam

March - April Session Full

Still Life with Pam McCauley
Six Week Class
Tuesdays, March 3 to April 7
9:30am to 12:30pm

Come join me this early spring for still life classes. We will have one or two beautiful still life’s to paint every week. While I will always be focusing on color and composition, I’d love to share some of the new approaches I’ve been working on this year!  Hope to see you there!  - Pam

March - April Session Full

Still Life with Pam McCauley
Six Week Class
Tuesdays, March 3 to April 7
9:30am to 12:30pm

Come join me this early spring for still life classes. We will have one or two beautiful still life’s to paint every week. While I will always be focusing on color and composition, I’d love to share some of the new approaches I’ve been working on this year!  Hope to see you there!  - Pam

CLASS FULL

Wondrous Wax:
Hot Wax Meets Mixed Media

Friday, March 20 to Sunday, March 22
10am to 4pm
$400

This vibrant workshop combines multiple media techniques with melted beeswax on a variety of surfaces, emphasizing unity of design, texture, and color. We work with a combination of both dry and wet media, including soft pastels, watercolor,
oil paint/sticks/pastels, charcoal, graphite, and collage. No acrylic media. All Imagery applicable. Use mediums of choice. Appropriate for continuing painters and collagists. Beginners in Encaustics are welcome! Instructor supplies the wax medium, wax paint, heating tools (griddles, heat guns, torches) practice surfaces and 1 panel per student.

More info: mira@mirawhitefineart.com
https://www.miramwhite.com

MATERIALS LIST
Due to the nature of this workshop, the instructor is supplying many of the materials and requires a materials fee of $75 to help defray the costs. Please pay at the workshop. CASH is preferred payment.

INSTRUCTOR BRINGS :
1 Cradled, primed Birch Panels 8’x8” for each student
3x 8-ply museum mat board , small pieces 8”x8” for practice pieces
Paint Brushes
Encaustic Medium ( wax with damar resin)
Encaustic Paint ( the rainbow spectrum plus white)
Heat Guns, torches, heating surfaces ( electric griddles, fry pans)
Graphite Powder, Charcoal powder
Some scraping tools
Some Collage tools
Some Oil Pastels , soft pastels & Drawing Media, watercolor in spray bottles
Tubs for pouring Wax

MATERIALS YOU BRING :
1. You will need 300 lb or 140 lb.w/c paper or 4 or 8 ply museum board – 1 full sheet (22”x30”) cut up in 6 “ squares for exercises
You should have about 15 6″x6″ pieces for samplers
2. Your collection of watercolor, drawing, oil and collage materials including: Watercolor crayons, charcoal, oil pastels, water -based graphite pencils, colored pencils, Oil paint sticks, graphite pencils. Wax loves Oil. No acrylic paint
3. 3 Additional Surfaces to work on: Must be Absorbent and Inflexible 2 Wood *or prepared Encaustic panels—8”x8” up to 14” * 1/2″ birch or finished plywood is great

ADDITIONAL:
3 Bristle utility brushes , variety of sizes ½”, 1”, 2” – cheap are fine.
Scissors, Tweezers
Collage materials: Papers, Threads, Xerox images, photos
Masking Tape for stenciling—1/2 “ , 1”
Rags
Wear crummy clothes, bring an oven mitt

The following mediums are entirely optional but extremely useful:
Oil Paint Sticks ( Sennelier or R&F are best)
Oil Pastels
Woody Stabilo pencils
Soft Pastels – both stick and/or Pan pastels

CLASS FULL

Wondrous Wax:
Hot Wax Meets Mixed Media

Friday, March 20 to Sunday, March 22
10am to 4pm
$400

This vibrant workshop combines multiple media techniques with melted beeswax on a variety of surfaces, emphasizing unity of design, texture, and color. We work with a combination of both dry and wet media, including soft pastels, watercolor,
oil paint/sticks/pastels, charcoal, graphite, and collage. No acrylic media. All Imagery applicable. Use mediums of choice. Appropriate for continuing painters and collagists. Beginners in Encaustics are welcome! Instructor supplies the wax medium, wax paint, heating tools (griddles, heat guns, torches) practice surfaces and 1 panel per student.

More info: mira@mirawhitefineart.com
https://www.miramwhite.com

MATERIALS LIST
Due to the nature of this workshop, the instructor is supplying many of the materials and requires a materials fee of $75 to help defray the costs. Please pay at the workshop. CASH is preferred payment.

INSTRUCTOR BRINGS :
1 Cradled, primed Birch Panels 8’x8” for each student
3x 8-ply museum mat board , small pieces 8”x8” for practice pieces
Paint Brushes
Encaustic Medium ( wax with damar resin)
Encaustic Paint ( the rainbow spectrum plus white)
Heat Guns, torches, heating surfaces ( electric griddles, fry pans)
Graphite Powder, Charcoal powder
Some scraping tools
Some Collage tools
Some Oil Pastels , soft pastels & Drawing Media, watercolor in spray bottles
Tubs for pouring Wax

MATERIALS YOU BRING :
1. You will need 300 lb or 140 lb.w/c paper or 4 or 8 ply museum board – 1 full sheet (22”x30”) cut up in 6 “ squares for exercises
You should have about 15 6″x6″ pieces for samplers
2. Your collection of watercolor, drawing, oil and collage materials including: Watercolor crayons, charcoal, oil pastels, water -based graphite pencils, colored pencils, Oil paint sticks, graphite pencils. Wax loves Oil. No acrylic paint
3. 3 Additional Surfaces to work on: Must be Absorbent and Inflexible 2 Wood *or prepared Encaustic panels—8”x8” up to 14” * 1/2″ birch or finished plywood is great

ADDITIONAL:
3 Bristle utility brushes , variety of sizes ½”, 1”, 2” – cheap are fine.
Scissors, Tweezers
Collage materials: Papers, Threads, Xerox images, photos
Masking Tape for stenciling—1/2 “ , 1”
Rags
Wear crummy clothes, bring an oven mitt

The following mediums are entirely optional but extremely useful:
Oil Paint Sticks ( Sennelier or R&F are best)
Oil Pastels
Woody Stabilo pencils
Soft Pastels – both stick and/or Pan pastels

CLASS FULL

Wondrous Wax:
Hot Wax Meets Mixed Media

Friday, March 20 to Sunday, March 22
10am to 4pm
$400

This vibrant workshop combines multiple media techniques with melted beeswax on a variety of surfaces, emphasizing unity of design, texture, and color. We work with a combination of both dry and wet media, including soft pastels, watercolor,
oil paint/sticks/pastels, charcoal, graphite, and collage. No acrylic media. All Imagery applicable. Use mediums of choice. Appropriate for continuing painters and collagists. Beginners in Encaustics are welcome! Instructor supplies the wax medium, wax paint, heating tools (griddles, heat guns, torches) practice surfaces and 1 panel per student.

More info: mira@mirawhitefineart.com
https://www.miramwhite.com

MATERIALS LIST
Due to the nature of this workshop, the instructor is supplying many of the materials and requires a materials fee of $75 to help defray the costs. Please pay at the workshop. CASH is preferred payment.

INSTRUCTOR BRINGS :
1 Cradled, primed Birch Panels 8’x8” for each student
3x 8-ply museum mat board , small pieces 8”x8” for practice pieces
Paint Brushes
Encaustic Medium ( wax with damar resin)
Encaustic Paint ( the rainbow spectrum plus white)
Heat Guns, torches, heating surfaces ( electric griddles, fry pans)
Graphite Powder, Charcoal powder
Some scraping tools
Some Collage tools
Some Oil Pastels , soft pastels & Drawing Media, watercolor in spray bottles
Tubs for pouring Wax

MATERIALS YOU BRING :
1. You will need 300 lb or 140 lb.w/c paper or 4 or 8 ply museum board – 1 full sheet (22”x30”) cut up in 6 “ squares for exercises
You should have about 15 6″x6″ pieces for samplers
2. Your collection of watercolor, drawing, oil and collage materials including: Watercolor crayons, charcoal, oil pastels, water -based graphite pencils, colored pencils, Oil paint sticks, graphite pencils. Wax loves Oil. No acrylic paint
3. 3 Additional Surfaces to work on: Must be Absorbent and Inflexible 2 Wood *or prepared Encaustic panels—8”x8” up to 14” * 1/2″ birch or finished plywood is great

ADDITIONAL:
3 Bristle utility brushes , variety of sizes ½”, 1”, 2” – cheap are fine.
Scissors, Tweezers
Collage materials: Papers, Threads, Xerox images, photos
Masking Tape for stenciling—1/2 “ , 1”
Rags
Wear crummy clothes, bring an oven mitt

The following mediums are entirely optional but extremely useful:
Oil Paint Sticks ( Sennelier or R&F are best)
Oil Pastels
Woody Stabilo pencils
Soft Pastels – both stick and/or Pan pastels

March - April Session Full

Still Life with Pam McCauley
Six Week Class
Tuesdays, March 3 to April 7
9:30am to 12:30pm

Come join me this early spring for still life classes. We will have one or two beautiful still life’s to paint every week. While I will always be focusing on color and composition, I’d love to share some of the new approaches I’ve been working on this year!  Hope to see you there!  - Pam

Flowers for my Mother - Opening Reception

March - April Session Full

Still Life with Pam McCauley
Six Week Class
Tuesdays, March 3 to April 7
9:30am to 12:30pm

Come join me this early spring for still life classes. We will have one or two beautiful still life’s to paint every week. While I will always be focusing on color and composition, I’d love to share some of the new approaches I’ve been working on this year!  Hope to see you there!  - Pam

March - April Session Full

Still Life with Pam McCauley
Six Week Class
Tuesdays, March 3 to April 7
9:30am to 12:30pm

$295

Come join me this early spring for still life classes. We will have one or two beautiful still life’s to paint every week. While I will always be focusing on color and composition, I’d love to share some of the new approaches I’ve been working on this year!  Hope to see you there!  - Pam

push / PRACTICE
with Carl Heyward & Akiko Suzuki

Sunday, February 22
12-3pm
$215

HIGH COMPETENCY WORKSHOPS 
FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS 

IN ALL MEDIA  AT ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE 

Artists / curators Carl Heyward and Akiko Suzuki return to STUDIO 55 MARTINEZ  Sunday February 22nd and invite artists to continue their explorations in mixed media practice as well as making adjustments to attitudes and approaches when seeking creative solutions and flow in the work. Having conducted international workshops in Japan, participated in Master Studio Sessions there with peers and curated or participated in exhibitions in NYC and NC, Seoul, Korea in recent months, they are anxious to share the fruits of these experiences in collaborative and individual practice.

Options for Mentoring and one-to-one instruction 

TOWARD DEVELOPING INDEPENDENT SKILLS: 

• Basic (Novice)

• Working (Advanced Beginner)

• Extensive (Competent)

• Expert (Proficient)

• Leader/Mastery

REGISTER NOW:

Carl Heyward
is a NEA Fellow and grant recipient, former MFA instructor at SF Academy of Art University, arts writer and founder of Global Art Project, a mixed-media collaborative cooperative with a membership in 12 countries. He has exhibited at Room Art Gallery, Mill Valley, The Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland, CA, artist-in-residence at The Schools of The Sacred Heart at The Flood Mansion, San Francisco, and continues to exhibit internationally: Kranz, Slovenia; Mazatlan, Mexico; Venice, Italy; and Ghent, Belgium, in 2017-2019. His work is in collections held by SF-MOMA, NY-MOMA, Yale University Art Library, the National Gallery of Australia, Wellsely Art Library and the Brooklyn Museum. He is associated with Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, CA; 10dence Gallery, Holland, Galerie Sobo Bade, Senegal and Gallerie Renee Marie, CA, East Village Art View Gallery, NYC

https://www.instagram.com/carlheyward/
https://www.carlheywardarts.com/
https://www.instagram.com/globalartproject/

Akiko Suzuki:  
is a textile and mixed media artist living in California, U.S.A.

In 1986 Akiko Suzuki graduated in visual design from Kyoto College of the Arts where she studied photography, video and three-dimensional production.

Suzuki started making quilts in 1990 and has won numerous art quilt awards both domestically and internationally and has been collected all over the world.

Since 2014, she has participated in Global Art Project co-founded  with Carl Heyward.

She has co-facxilitated  art residencies including group exhibitions, solo and collaborative studio practice and workshops in Italy, USA, Mexico and Senegal.

Suzuki's works express poetry and the intangible, invisible things; thoughts and skin sensations become words and images 

This intuitive work, like a novel, is born from everyday life and the words spring from her flood of images becoming poetry reflected in the title of the work. The expression of these emotions also extends to photography and video.

Her works are visualized as abstractions via sumi ink, paint, collage, fiber and textile art. Her solo exhibition SONGS OF A LITTLE BIRD is scheduled for July 2026 at NY2CA Gallery in Benicia, Ca

https://www.instagram.com/akiss_art/
https://www.akissart.com/
https://globartproject.wixsite.com/globalartproject-art

For questions & comments please contact artspeak2020@yahoo.com

East Bay Landscape Painting
from a photo
with Dean Evans

Sundays, January 25 to February 15
1-4pm
$275

Join local artist Dean Evans to explore turning your landscape photos and sketches into beautiful paintings using a vibrant limited palette and traditional techniques. Supply lists, demonstrations, and individualized instruction provided.

**Sign up now and keep the spirit of the Bay alive!**

East Bay Landscape Painting
from a photo
with Dean Evans

Sundays, January 25 to February 15
1-4pm
$275

Join local artist Dean Evans to explore turning your landscape photos and sketches into beautiful paintings using a vibrant limited palette and traditional techniques. Supply lists, demonstrations, and individualized instruction provided.

**Sign up now and keep the spirit of the Bay alive!**

East Bay Landscape Painting
from a photo
with Dean Evans

Sundays, January 25 to February 15
1-4pm
$275

Join local artist Dean Evans to explore turning your landscape photos and sketches into beautiful paintings using a vibrant limited palette and traditional techniques. Supply lists, demonstrations, and individualized instruction provided.

**Sign up now and keep the spirit of the Bay alive!**