“Thank you so much for a wonderful two-day encaustic monotype workshop. Your depth of knowledge and patience created such a welcoming space to learn, experiment and truly be creative. This was my first experience with encaustic monotypes. I loved it!” Julie M This month, I welcomed six remarkable artists into
“When books are removed from libraries, we are erasing voices. We are telling young readers that their lives, identities, and experiences don’t matter.” Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give Join me and my fellow artists of the Feminist Image Group for a powerful and timely exhibition titled In
Since selling my branding agency in 2020, I’ve been teaching various encaustic workshops to small, intimate groups of artists in my Carlsbad studio. Last weekend, I held a master class on encaustic collage. I asked the attendees to bring work in various stages of completion. This turned out to be
I demonstrated the three fundamentals that control the outcome of a work: the temperature of the palette (optimal setting is 180 degrees), the amount of encaustic medium (damar resin and beeswax) and the type of paper used to pull the print. It always best to start with just a few colors–2 to 3 at the most.
