PEN IT IN! This Saturday at 2pm FREE Encaustic Demo

Feb 092012
 

Learn the ancient yet contemporary technique of painting with heated wax. FREE!

We’ll cover:

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  • Studio Set-up
  • Safety
  • Making your own colors and mediums
  • Collaging found images or papers
  • Scraping back into the wax layers
  • Sculpting
  • Image Transfers
  • Etching-like technique
  • Drawing on wax
  • and whatever else I can think of to show you!

Speaking of encaustic, I keep forgetting to check this blog by encaustic artist Joanne Mattera who literally wrote the book on the technique. If you’re into abstraction, she collects and reviews some really inspiring shows that set your mind going.

http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/

This pic from Joanne’s blog shows the Enkaustikos product we’ll be using to demonstrate being, well, demonstrated at the First National Conference of Encaustic Painting in 2007. Those little tins on the electric pancake griddle are almost all you need to get started!

Enkaustikos Pallette Demo

Beginning Silk Painting with Rene Shoemaker $45

Jan 262012
 

WE NEED 5 MORE PARTICIPANTS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!! Sign up today.

Learn to paint your own delicate silk scarf or a vivid wall hanging! Silk is a fabulous fabric that takes color wonderfully. Wear old clothes and be ready to create something beautiful. No experience necessary. We need 8 people to make this class happen so sign up with a friend! Call us at 706-548-5334 or come by and make your $45 seat deposit. Here’s a peek into what you’ll be doing.

 

:::: Rene Shoemaker, a fine artist who creates textile art on silk.  Using dyes as her paint, and silk as her canvas, she seeks to capture beauty in the every day surroundings that we live in.  Graduating with a fine art degree from the University of Georgia was only the beginning for Shoemaker – she considers her real training to have come from life, living, and her interactions with people, places and things.  Her pleasure in silk painting pours through in the the relationships she creates via colors, lines, shapes, and balance.  To Shoemaker silk is a medium that speaks of light and movement, texture and weight, delicately voicing her artistic understanding of both place and community.
You can view her work in person at Jittery Joe’s Five Points (it’s hanging from the ceiling) and online at reneshoemaker.com or coffeecuppress.tumblr.com.