Encaustic Painting Workshop

It's all business these days with me: full-time employment, passport applications, and failed canvases leading only to failed supply orders. The up side is that I will be going to Thailand in just under 5 months and I just finished a productive meeting with a good friend and WPA-DC staff member. We're in the planning stages of hosting a short encaustic workshop, hopefuly in June which will be free for their members. I will be volunteering 4 hours of instruction for 15-20 memebers. WPA is a great arts organization in DC, of which I am a member and it's the least I can do to help them provide a fun event for other members to enjoy. 4 hours is not even close to enough time to get a good grasp of painting with encaustic but at least I can answer some questions they may have, get tham started and lay the ground work for a potential follow-up session with more involved instruction and advanced techniques. Plus this is a great opportunity to excerise one of by favorite and most fun skills.



Topics covered will be: What a painter needs for a basic set up of encaustic painting in the studio, including safety and ventilation, techniques to get started, plus some info on collage/works on paper, sculptural applications, and other mixed media techniques.