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PAINTERLY ENCAUSTIC: LANDSCAPES with Bridget Benton
Explore encaustic as a pure painting medium while creating a beautifully textured landscape! If you’ve been struggling to use color and encaustic paint in your mixed-media encaustic work or want an introduction to encaustic that’s painterly rather than collage-based, this may be the workshop for you.
While we will be working from photos, students will be encouraged to simplify and slightly abstract their landscapes rather than trying to create photo-realistic copies. Encaustic is an expressive media with a mind of its own! We’ll be working WITH the medium rather than against it and playing to its strengths: rich color, luminous depth, and incredible texture.
In this beginner-friendly workshop, you’ll learn:
– Encaustic Safety
– Easy ways to start your painting that set you up for success
– How to build up & fuse your layers for maximum visual depth
– How to achieve both smooth & textured surfaces
– Tips & Tricks for using your brushes & controlling your paint
– Working with the transparency and opacity of your paint
– How to bring in detail and crisp lines!