GREETINGS ENCAUSTIC ARTISTS, Here is an update concerning the Intermediate Workshop and Retreat in Santa Fe, October 1-8. Artists are attending from as far away as the UK and Saskatchewan, and from all across the US. This is a great group to learn with, and from, and an opportunity to take your work to the next level. Due to last minute cancellations, we have three spaces available, Please forward this info to those who might be interested. Participants must already know the basics and have at least a year’s studio experience with encaustic.
Below you will see the topics we will cover and a tentative schedule. The length, seven full days, allows you to develop a cohesive body of work for a show, try out new projects, and enjoy the Santa Fe mountain setting and unique culture.
Demonstration topics
New (and improved) transfer techniques
Achieving a smooth surface
New tricks with stencils.
Working large
Unusual ways of presenting paper -framed and unframed
Achieving textures
Dipping paper,
Pouring wax
Creating and dipping 3-d forms; Assemblage
Warmed drawings on waxy paper and on encaustic paint (wet and dry media)
Mark-making on paintings and waxy paper
Oil, oil pastel, oil stick and wax
Printing with wax
Fusing with torches, lights, irons…
Tool sharing (everyone shares favorite uncommon tools)
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Discussion topics
Preparing Artist’s Statements
How to develop a cohesive body of work
Developing “content” in your work
Installation art ideas
Portfolio/ presentation packages (critique, sharing, suggestions…)
Sharing resources (sources for materials & tools, web sites of interest, etc)
Recommend other:___________________________
Also included in our workshop:
Visits to Santa Fe Contemporary Galleries
Individual and group critiques
Visiting Artist Critique
Daily Trouble-shooting / problem-solving for works in progress
Check out prices on my website schedule page. Then call or write Ruth, our registrar and my assistant, for more info and to register.
Ruth Gooch: EncausticSantaFe@yahoo.com
Thanks, Hope to see you in Santa Fe!
Paula
www.PaulaRoland.com
Featuring artwork by members of Texas Wax
Texas Discovery Gardens
3601 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75210
(214) 428-7476
www.texasdiscoverygardens.org
September 4, 2009 – January 3, 2010
Opening reception: September 4, 6-8 pm
Grand Opening of Butterfly House: September 12 & 13
Texas Discovery Gardens is located through Gate 6 at Fair Park
Global Swarming is an inaugural exhibit in conjunction with the Grand Opening of the Rosine Smith Sammons Butterfly House and Insectarium.
Artists featured:
Ivonne Acero
Kristy Battani
Trayc Claybrook
Charlotte Cornett
Rhonda Daniel
Linda Disosway
Diane reader Dorn
Brett Dryer
Peggy Epner
Nancy Ferro
Laura Griffin
Darlene Hartman
Carolyn Fox Hearne
Antoaneta Melnikova Hillman
Larry Kitchen
Teri Leuders
Jackie Maclelland
Cheryl McClure
Carmen Menza
Junanne Peck
Michelle Pryor
Janet Reynolds
Patty Rooney
Susan Sposler-Carstarphen
Silvia Thornton
Carolyn Todd
VET
Deanna Wood
Mary Wright
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Texas WAX/Dallas in partnership with Texas Discovery Gardens presents GLOBAL SWARMING, reflections upon Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). In conjunction with the State Fair of Texas, we have invited Texas Wax members, state wide, to participate. Our common bond is the use of bees wax in our work.
Encaustic wax is an ancient painting method enjoying a resurgence today.
One is every 3 bites of our food is dependent upon the pollination of bees. Since 2006, there has been an alarming decrease within the bee population. CCD is the perfect storm of stresses.
Apiary overcrowding, loss of nectar due to habitat reduction, pesticides, pollination of crops with low nutritional value, exposure to contaminated water supplies as well as high levels of the Varroa mite factor into this alarming situation.
It is our intention to bring to light the importance of this issue. We are grateful for the opportunity to work with TDG and to interface with the community. Please join us in this thoughful exchange.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572
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Thursday, January 28th, Friday, January 29th and Saturday, January 30th
10:00 to 4:00 each day
$385.00 beginner, intermediate and advanced
Join us in this three day extravaganza in beeswax! Experience the joy and versatility of this rich, organic medium as Patricia teaches you the basics then builds on these to excite you with numerous techniques that will get you doing everything encaustic. The diversity of this medium offers the artist opportunity to include all mediums and build on skills related to other creative outlets like no other medium can. Demonstration and hands on painting and experimenting is what the workshop is all about. With ample time to play in the wax, ask questions and develop a strong sense of what is possible in the medium, no one will go away without a fever for encaustic!
Techniques explored but not limited to; incising, image transfer, bleached paper layering, glue/tea techniques, metallic pigment layering, plaster and ash inclusion. All supplies included but you are asked to please bring favorite papers, threads, watercolor on papers, writings, printed images for transfer and or collage and small objects or grids to enhance your creative experience!
We carry Patricia’s book: Encaustic Workshop:
Artistic Techniques for working with wax by Patricia Seggebruch
$22 – with tax: $23.81
Patricia is self taught; painting in mixed media and encaustic for nine years. Having the good fortune of working from her own studio on site at her home, in Washington, Patricia is able to play daily with new ideas that incorporate a variety of mediums into her work. One can find watercolor under encaustic; acrylic as a basis for oil; pastel worked into a watercolor collage. The nature of her work allows for experimentation and interplay of materials without getting caught up in any limitations of medium, style or discipline.
While keeping her own work in progress, Patricia also teaches workshops throughout the US and can be found at 8 venues in 2010. She rounds out her life with the raising of her four teenage sons. Her DVDs include: Encaustic Collage Workshop, Encaustic Workshop: image transfer and Encaustic Workshop: shellac burn which will be available soon.
A $50.00 deposit holds your space
Please call or email Bonny or Deanna to register:
Bonny 214-405-5993 bonny@theencausticcenter.com
Deanna 972-345-9968 deanna@theencausticcenter.com
The Encaustic Center: http://www.theencausticcenter.com/
580 W.Arapaho Rd. #271
Richardson, TX. 75080
The Encaustic Center: theencausticcenter.com
580 W.Arapaho Rd. #271
Richardson, TX. 75080
214-405-5993
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Theory and Practice: Encaustic Painting Today
7pm – 9pm October 30th, 2009
This panel consists of encaustic artists and people involved in the world of encaustic art, who will explore the growing popularity of encaustic painting over the last 15-20 years, and address the question of what in the climate of the arts and the times, has revived the use of this ancient medium amongst contemporary artists, when for so long it was used only occasionally, at best.
Moderator: Ellen Koment (Artist)
Panelists: Richard Frumess, (artist, founder and owner of R&F Encaustic Paints), Nancy Azara, (encaustic sculptor, and author), Michael David (artist)
RSVP: atoarsvp@gmail.com
The School of Visual Arts (SVA), 209 East 23rd Street, NYC, in the Amphitheater
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$7 General Public
$3 Artists and students, Free for SVA students and faculty
artists Talk on Art: http://www.atoa.ws/
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