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60. Encaustics 2: Adding Color

  • Athenaeum Art Center 1955 Julian Avenue San Diego, CA, 92113 United States (map)

Image by Josephine Von Herzen

Lisa Bebi

Thursday–Saturday, 11 AM–4 PM 
April 3–5 
(3 Days, 15 total hours of instruction) 
AAC Art Studio
$245/265 + $75 materials fee paid to instructor 

This class will feature a quick review of the basics taught in Encaustics 1 and then move on to new techniques. These include the following:

 

  • How to use the visual space effectively

  • How to use color, pan pastels, paints and colored beeswax, stencils, and drawing tools 

  • Use of transparent colors
     

Materials: The $75 material fee includes wood-panel supports, R & F encaustic medium, some R & F wax colors, heated palette, some brushes, heat guns, torches, some collage materials, images, things to embed; mark-making tools; gloves; scissors. Optional: you may bring to class an apron; mask for face, if sensitive to the smell of heated wax; paper towels; tracing paper; your own mark-making tools; dried botanicals to embed. 

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Immediately after you register, look for a confirmation email and receipt. In the week preceding the class start date, you will receive another email with more details.

Earlier Event: March 30
59. Encaustics 1: Layering & Embedding
Later Event: April 5
75. Workshop: Handmade Cards