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
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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