Encaustic / October 15-18 / Texas / 4 Day
$675.00
Taught by Gina Adams
R&F brings Encaustic to you. Our 4 day Regional Encaustic Workshops give participants a thorough introduction to the encaustic medium method. Artists with backgrounds in almost any medium will find these workshops are an exciting opportunity to expand their visual vocabulary with wax. Some who attend have little familiarity with encaustic, others have experience working in the medium, but seek to refine their technique. The dynamic created by this diverse mix of artists adds to the learning experience and to the discovery of new techniques and applications.  Class size is limited to 10 participants.

Advanced Teaching Encaustic / October 22-25 / Texas / 4 Day
$725.00
Taught by Gina Adams
A seminar for painters who are interested in learning how to teach encaustic technique as an independent artist, or for educators who want to introduce the method to their students.  Led by instructor Gina Adams.  Class size is limited to 10 participants.

For more info, or to register, please visit www.rfpaints.com

1. Committee Chair Positions: The deadline for expressing interest in serving as chairs or members of the Texas Wax committees of Education, Programming, Communications, and Development.  Members from all area groups are encouraged to apply. Should you be interested in any of these, please send your info and area of interest to Sharon Kyle Kuhn by July 31st.
2. August Meeting:  The August meeting will be held at the Dougherty Arts Center at the usual time (10:30am – 12:30pm) on August 15th.  Carolyn Todd will chair.
3. September Meeting: Plans include:
   • extended meeting time (10:30am – 1:30pm), to include lunch
   • bring one piece of work to present to the group; each person will have 3 minutes for a focused talk about their piece
   • bring a guest who may be interested in encaustic
   • members of the other Texas Wax groups will be our guests

4. Website (and Membership):
   • We have added Paypal to the website to pay for membership.  Use this form to sign up to be a member of Texas Wax.
   • If you’re already a member, get your pages up.  All kinds of information for Registered Users are linked on these pages.  We may prepare a short set of instructions soon – sort of a short form, if you will.
   • We will also be adding Paypal options for patrons soon.
   • Calls to Entry – a new section for calls to entry will be added to the website – for members only.  Should you know of any Calls to Entry you would like to share with the rest of our membership, please send it (or a link to it) to the webmaster, Marilyn Fenn.
5. Majestic Ranch Work Session: Follow up and assessment.  We had a very lively discussion concerning the Majestic Ranch Workshop.  The consensus seemed to be that we all loved our opportunity to paint together, and that for future sessions, we’d like to see more demos, perhaps have more time (another day or two?), do a show and tell at the end of each day, take breaks for slide examples for inspiration.  We need to do something to aid in ventilation; perhaps controlling materials to be used (i.e., no solvents, no oil, etc.).    In the future, we’d like to perhaps offer some more focused workshops — perhaps a basics primer including how to prepare your supports properly, a color workshop, etc.   We discussed finding some place in Austin where we could hold some of these types of workshops, perhaps one day every week for certain period of time instead of 2-4 days all in a row.  All ideas are welcome!
6. Reports: Reports from the committees were too brief to mention.
7. 

   10" x 10" x 1.75" Panel for Ten Fundraising Show

   Fall Fundraiser:

   • The fundraiser will be held November 7th at Bay6 Gallery and Studios.
   • The title is “10″
   • Artists will exhibit up to five pieces each.  The size is 10″x10″x1.5″ (the size of the panels made for most of us by Scot Eddy — it’s really more like 1.75″ in depth).
   • We will have a silent auction, with the starting price set at $100.00 for each painting.
   • Artists will contribute 20% or more of the proceeds from their work, as they like, to Texas Wax.
8. Vendor Discounts:
   • Jerry’s offers us a 20% discount, but they do want to see our membership card.  We need to get our membership cards created.
   • Everyone, please send your vendor recommendations to Sharon Kyle Kuhn; she will attempt to get us more discounts!
9. New Business: Logo Design Contest!
   • Kristy informed us there will be a logo design contest for a new Texas Wax logo.
   • Anyone is allowed to submit their design; the hope is that there will be many submissions from members of Texas Wax.
   • The due date is in about a month (not sure of the date at this writing); August 15th was mentioned.
   • There will be a $250 award for the chosen logo.
   • The logo is to be provided in one or more of the following formats: TIF, JPG, EPS; black and white; color is optional; should include the text “Promoting Encaustic Art” and of course “Texas Wax” (two words, initial caps each)
   • Stay tuned for an official Calls to Entry in which all these things will be spelled out precisely.
   • The Call to Entry will be posted here on the website.
10. Exhibit Opportunities: (watch this space; there will soon be a link to a new members only section for Calls to Entry)
11. Technical Questions: We’d like to reserve ten minutes during each meeting for technical questions.  We had a great discussion concerning technical considerations, and would like to make this a regular feature of our monthly meetings.

Saturday night, after the day’s painting was done, the group enjoyed dinner out together at a brew pub in Boerne.

Many thanks to Roxi McCloskey and Daphne Holland for organizing this event, and to all the artists who took part. A special thanks to David Pound, for bringing a whole vanload of cool stuff to share with the other artists! It was a great weekend, and one that we hope will be just the first of many such workshops to come!