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Encaustic Classes |
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Pollination: Monoprint and Encaustic |
 Laura
Moriarty  Cynthia Winika |
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Join WSW in collaboration with
R&F Handmade Paints as we work
with two of the most sensual two-dimensional
art mediums. The first two days
of this class will be held at WSW,
where we will cover basic painterly
monoprinting, stencil, and transfer
methods, emphasizing a quick and
free pace of working, and experimentation
with a wide variety of printing
papers. We will consider these
printed elements as “potentials”—items
that we may combine, layer and
compose to create images using
hot wax at R&F Handmade Paints,
during the last two days.
At R&F Handmade Paints we
will learn various ways to work
with hot wax beginning with the
basics of traditional encaustic
painting, including an introduction
to equipment and materials, with
a thorough discussion of health
and safety issues. Then we will
move on to emphasize experimentation
with a focus on using our printed
elements. Participants will play
with heat, discovering how it affects
surface and texture through collage
and layering with wax, using its
inherent translucency to create
works with incredible richness
and depth.
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| July
14-17 |
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$650
($675 non-members) Lab fee
$25 |
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Top:A
Perfect World for Manganese Blue,
encaustic by Laura Moriarty, above: Encaustic
by Cynthia Winika |
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Pollination: Papermaking and
Encaustic |
 Laura
Moriarty Chris
Petrone |
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Join WSW in collaboration with
R&F Handmade Paints as we create
contemporary waxed handmade paper
works. The first two days of this
class will be held at WSW in the
papermaking studio, where students
will work with cotton, abaca and
flax fibers. Once the basics are
mastered, we’ll investigate
the potential of hand papermaking.
We will create collages utilizing
techniques of layering, imbedding,
translucency and opacity, stenciling,
pulp painting, and embossing.
Using these handmade paper elements
as starting points, we will spend
the last two days at R&F Handmade
Paints in nearby Kingston for a
wax-travaganza. This session will
begin with an introduction to basic
encaustic techniques. Then students
will create deeply layered collages
by working directly on the handmade
papers or mounting the handmade
sheets on panels. We will be saturating,
bending, burnishing, dipping, dripping,
staining, transferring, drawing,
and carving into this natural wonder
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| August
July 28 - 31 |
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$650
($675 non-members) Lab fee
$25 |
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top: Furrow,
monoprint with encaustic, part of a series
by Laura Moriarty, above: drawing by
Chris Petrone
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Pollination: Trace Monoprints, Paper
Lithography and Encaustic
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 Tatana
Kellner  Laura
Moriarty
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WSW is working in collaboration
with R&F Handmade Paints in
this workshop experimenting with
two contemporary mediums. The
first two days of this class
will be held at WSW, where we
will create printed elements
using a combination of trace
monoprinting and photocopy gum
transfers. The first day will
be spent learning the very direct
trace monoprint process, which
offers the spontaneity of a drawn
line with the richness and unpredictability
of the printmaking process. This
is a very low tech process that
does not require a press. The
various inks and papers suitable
for this process will be will
be discussed. The second day
will be devoted to paper lithography,
a non-toxic transfer process
from either photographic or drawn
imagery. Quick and free pace
of image development will be
emphasized. We will consider these
elements as "potentials"
– images that we may combine,
layer and compose to create narratives.
The last two days of the workshop
will be held at R&F Handmade
Paints. This segment presents the
basics of traditional encaustic
painting, including an introduction
to equiptment and materials, and
a thorough discussion of health
and safety issues. Then we will
move on to emphasize experimentation
with a focus on using the printed
elements. We will construct images
to be further developed with hot
wax. Participants will learn to
work with heat, discovering how
it affects surface and texture,
and learn how to collage and layer
with wax, using its inherent translucency
to create works with incredible
richness and depth. Minimal approaches
to wax, such as simple dipping,
will also be explored.
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August
18 - 21
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top:Tatana Kellner Compulsion, above: Nothing
But Big, encaustic by Laura Moriarty
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