When
August 1-3, 2019, 10am-4pm each day
Where
Elise Wagner’s Studio in Portland, OR
WHERE CAN I SIGN UP!
Please visit this link to sign up for the workshop. I look forward to working with you!
Basic Description
This is an experimental, fun, why-not-try-it workshop exploring printmaking, line and encaustic. Utilizing the natural luminosity, textural and layering possibilities of encaustic in combination with creating collagraphs utilizing found linear materials on fabric, Encaustiflex and paper, participants will experiment with a wide variety of innovative materials and exercises to inspire expressive marks while also developing a personal artistic voice. The application of thin layers of encaustic for collage, covering a board with fabric, drawing with horse hair, branding (creating marks with heated metal and wood burning tools), the use of stitch as a mark as well as the conceptual use of transparency and layers is also discussed. A bonus in this workshop is the opportunity to create your own grids, laces and lace like forms using free motion sewing machine embroidery on water soluble stabilizer-these sewn grids may also be basis for creating a collagraph. Optional individual critiques with Lorraine will be offered to all participants.
Who should take this workshop?
- You are a semi-beginner to advanced painter (encaustic or other) who loves experimenting with materials, mixed media, alternative processes and line.
- You are interested in what the grid can do for your work, but don’t want to make gridded paintings. NOTE: You won’t make a gridded painting in this workshop unless you want to do so, but understanding the concept of the grid as a foundational structure will make your paintings stronger. Guaranteed.
- You want to express yourself in a more meaningful way with your work.
- You want to create consistency, a personal voice, your own mark, in your paintings and body of work as a whole.
- Your creative process is stagnating and you need to learn a new process, idea or technique.
- You love materials and innovative ways to use them.
- You dislike drawing and/or you’re afraid of it.
What happens in this workshop? What will I learn?
- Marking, drawing, making marks with fun exercises involving music, text, folding/cutting paper, collage, fire, found materials are sure to relax you so that you don’t even know you’re drawing and are designed for you to generate ideas, content and a personal mark.
- Experimenting with the new, fun material, Encaustiflex.
- Utilizing a printing press to experiment with the magic of the collagraph utilizing found and alternative materials, etc.
- Experiment with line ideas using innovative techniques and materials such as horsehair, pyrography (making marks with heated metal and tools), stitching by hand or machine, Solvy (water soluble embroidery stabilizer) in combination with encaustic.
- In depth discussion, brainstorming and slide talk about line and the grid-what it means in art, what it does, how to generate it, how to use it.
- What the concepts of good design are and how to apply these ideas to fine art.
- Effective and productive doodling.
- Experiment with encaustic tools such as a tjanting, incising into the wax, creating grids and lines using masks, paintsticks and encaustic friendly drawing media.
- How you can create your own process to make a cohesive body of work and how that process can relate to and enhance content in that work.
- Learn what found drawings are and how you can use them as a tool for inspiration and content generation.
What kind of work will I make?
Please enjoy the work example pics below from participants who have previously taken this workshop as well as images from Elise’s fabulous studio. Please visit additional blog posts here and here and here and here for more information related to this workshop.
WHERE CAN I SIGN UP!
Please visit this link to sign up for the workshop. I look forward to working with you!
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OHHHHH! Right here in Portland. (((Sigh))) I can’t afford it. Looks like a fantastic workshop.
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I wish you could, it would be great to see you and work with you again!
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