Natural Impressions in Encaustic with Jodi Reeb & Megan
Jul
17
to Jul 20

Natural Impressions in Encaustic with Jodi Reeb & Megan

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You’ll be inspired by the beautiful surroundings in Victoria, British Columbia. In this 4-day, nature-inspired workshop, you’ll learn monotype printing techniques using leaves and other natural objects with R&F oil pigment sticks. You’ll be working on reusable gel printing plates that are easy to use and the images can be added as collage in your encaustic paintings. This method is the most painterly of printmaking techniques and without a press.

Taking photos as reference material from our inspiring location, you’ll learn the exciting ways to paint with wax! We’ll cover several techniques for collaging and embedding your prints into encaustic, as well as image transfer. We’ll include a variety of techniques such as incising, scraping and adding texture. These combined techniques will allow you to create dynamic nature-based compositions full of depth and translucency. You'll also learn how to use plant material as a stencil to create textured botanical paintings.

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The Versatility or R&F Pigment Sticks & Encaustic - Canadian Encaustic Conference - Owen Sound, ONT
Sep
6
11:15 AM11:15

The Versatility or R&F Pigment Sticks & Encaustic - Canadian Encaustic Conference - Owen Sound, ONT

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About Session

A Pigment Stick demonstration offers a relaxed environment where participants can see and experience Pigment Sticks. Topics covered include: how R&F Pigment Sticks allow artists to explore traditional and alternative methods of painting with oil by allowing them to draw or paint directly onto a surface with immediacy and fluidity; what Pigment Sticks are; health and safety when working with Pigment Sticks (including proper disposal of oil-soaked rags and paper towels); appropriate supports and tools; transparent vs. opaque Pigment Sticks; building a surface, monoprinting, image transfer, and mark making; and additional techniques (the use of cold wax, Gelli plates, etc.).

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Making you Mark in Encaustic - Canadian Encaustic Conference @ Georgian Bay School of the ArtsOwen Sound, ONT
Sep
8
to Sep 9

Making you Mark in Encaustic - Canadian Encaustic Conference @ Georgian Bay School of the ArtsOwen Sound, ONT

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The drawn line is the structure upon which a painting is built

A simple line can say so much. A line can be bold, expressive, graphic, or delicate, the list is long. There is however nothing more beautiful or unique than the hand drawn line, as a hand drawn line expresses ones individual style.

This technique based workshop explores the importance of the drawn line and ways that one can utilize it to give new depth and focus to their work.

Through mark making, we will experiment with various methods of drawing in, under and on the wax surface. Develop ways to continuously pull lines, visually up through the surface of the encaustic painting, while exploring a variety of arts media to make marks and draw. Thus coming away with a better understanding of what media to use and when. experimenting with techniques to bring finer detail in to ones encaustic painting.

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Depth & Dimension - Canadian Encaustic Conference - Owen Sound, ONT
Sep
10
to Sep 11

Depth & Dimension - Canadian Encaustic Conference - Owen Sound, ONT

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Among the oldest forms of painting, encaustics holds a myriad of possibilities to the modern artist. Encaustics have a beautiful otherworldly depth and a tactile, sumptuous surface. The encaustic painting can be as smooth as glass or it can be built up, scraped back, drawn on and carved into. The combinations are endless.

Take your encaustic practice to the next level during this in-depth 2-day workshop will include a discussion regarding various approaches to working in encaustic followed by a brief overview of studio set-up and safety. We will then dive into substrate and surface prep; ways of using the heated palette for mixing and blending colours; working with encaustic paint to create both visual and physical texture while experimenting with various mark making media; finishing our pieces by finessing colours and texture using R&F Pigment sticks. Some of the techniques covered include mastering brush work, smooth colour transitions, glazing, creating depth and dimension, controlling texture and smooth luminous surfaces. Encaustics encourages everyone to explore and experiment, to find their own unique voice.

Creating lush, luminous layers, mark making with various media on, in and under the wax layers. Discovering what to use and how to express your creative voice in encaustic.

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R&F Pigment Stick Demo - Opus Art Supplies, Victoria BC
Dec
5
10:00 AM10:00

R&F Pigment Stick Demo - Opus Art Supplies, Victoria BC

Join Megan Macdonald for an oil based pigment stick demonstration at Opus in a relaxed environment where participants can see and experience the unique properties of R&F Pigment Sticks. The event will cover various topics, including how R&F Pigment Sticks enable artists to explore both traditional and alternative methods of oil painting, allowing for direct drawing or painting on a surface with immediacy and fluidity. 

Participants will learn about R&F Pigment Sticks—composed of pigment and linseed oil—as well as important health and safety information related to their use, including the proper disposal of oil-soaked rags and paper towels. The session will also address suitable supports and tools, the differences between transparent and opaque pigment sticks, and techniques such as mono-printing, image transfer, and mark-making. 

The primary focus will be on exploring the versatility of the R&F Pigment Stick sets and colour mixing. If time permits, additional techniques, such as the use of cold wax and Gelli plates, will also be discussed.

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R&F Pigment Sticks Demo @ Opus Art Supplies - Kelowna
Nov
30
10:00 AM10:00

R&F Pigment Sticks Demo @ Opus Art Supplies - Kelowna

Join Megan Macdonald for an oil based pigment stick demonstration at Opus in a relaxed environment where participants can see and experience the unique properties of R&F Pigment Sticks. The event will cover various topics, including how R&F Pigment Sticks enable artists to explore both traditional and alternative methods of oil painting, allowing for direct drawing or painting on a surface with immediacy and fluidity. 

Participants will learn about R&F Pigment Sticks—composed of pigment and linseed oil—as well as important health and safety information related to their use, including the proper disposal of oil-soaked rags and paper towels. The session will also address suitable supports and tools, the differences between transparent and opaque pigment sticks, and techniques such as mono-printing, image transfer, and mark-making. 

The primary focus will be on exploring the versatility of the R&F Pigment Stick sets and colour mixing. If time permits, additional techniques, such as the use of cold wax and Gelli plates, will also be discussed.

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Go Big or Go Home
Oct
18
to Oct 20

Go Big or Go Home

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Have you ever wanted to work in a large scale in encaustic? Now is your chance! We will explore the unique challenges and possibilities that working large in this unique medium including keeping a smooth surface, adding depth and interest, compositional considerations and anything else that comes up. 3 day encaustic workshop working on a larger scale. Or create a diptych

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Heart of my Heart Workshop
Sep
28
10:00 AM10:00

Heart of my Heart Workshop

Saturday September 28th - 2024
10:00 am - 4:00pm

Create an encaustic heart panel using beeswax medium, pigment sticks and metallic pigments .

Participants will explore a variety of encaustic techniques to create a unique personalized encaustic painting. Once the encaustic medium is applied to the board, colour will be deepened by adding additional layers of encaustic paint to create depth and interest. Panel will be incised and enhanced and finished with pigment sticks and lush metallic powders. Sound overwhelming? Don’t fret. We will walk you through it step by step. A selection of board sizes will be available for you to choose from

Light lunch, coffee and tea supplied.

All supplies included

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Sumptuous Surfaces - Vancouver Island
Sep
13
to Sep 15

Sumptuous Surfaces - Vancouver Island

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Bring your sense of play to this exploratory workshop where the traditional boundaries of encaustic will be pushed back to make room work on unconventional surfaces. Some of the techniques we will be covering will include working with canvas, fabric, paper. Building up height and texture using accretion and texture. Exploring ways to build sculptural work up and off the surface of the board creating height and dimension.

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Explore + Experiment - Vancouver Island
Jul
19
to Jul 21

Explore + Experiment - Vancouver Island

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During this in-person 3-day encaustic workshop you will be introduced to the encaustic process and the myriad of possibilities it holds, explore some of my favourite techniques and learn ways to incorporate these encaustic techniques into your work. You will be shown how to incorporate found and personal images into your work through collage and how to enhance your work with image transfer. Creating sumptuous surfaces and texture, exploring mark-making techniques, wax application and incising. Encaustics will open up new avenues for creating and developing new approaches to your work. Explore colour and creating depth through use of pigmented wax, glazing techniques, R&F pigment sticks and adding metallics.

We will also discuss ways that you can begin to incorporate encaustics into your work and studio. During the workshop we will discuss studio set up, tools of the trade and studio safety.

The possibilities are endless.

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West Coast Nest Workshop
Jun
23
10:00 AM10:00

West Coast Nest Workshop

Sunday June 23
10:00 - 4:30pm

The Studio - Opus Art Supplies, Kelowna BC

All skill levels are welcome to come and create in this one day workshop.

After a brief discussion on encaustics, you will be guided through the process of building your own beautiful encaustic nest painting. Together we will begin by creating a lush wax background and then spend the afternoon having fun further exploring a variety of encaustic mark making techniques, building up layers of encaustic paint, creating depth and structure around the eggs nestled in your nest.

You will finish your piece by hand rubbing additional colours into the textured surface and further embellishing with a hint of gold or copper powder.

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Depth + Dimension
May
3
to May 5

Depth + Dimension

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Take your encaustic practice to the next level. This in-depth 3-day workshop will include a discussion regarding various approaches to working in encaustic followed by a brief overview of studio set-up and safety. We will then dive into substrate and surface prep; ways of using the heated palette for mixing and blending colours; working with encaustic paint to create both visual and physical texture while experimenting with various mark making media; finishing our pieces by finessing colours and texture using R&F Pigment sticks. Some of the techniques covered include mastering brush work, smooth colour transitions, glazing, creating depth and dimension, controlling texture and smooth luminous surfaces. Encaustics encourages everyone to explore and experiment, to find their own unique voice.

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Exploring Encaustics - Vancouver
Apr
5
to Apr 7

Exploring Encaustics - Vancouver

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While learning the fundamentals, experiment with multiple applications of the encaustic process including, creating sumptuous surfaces and texture, painting, colour mixing, fusing, collage and image transfer. Explore colour and creating depth through use of pigmented wax, glazing techniques, adding Pigment Sticks and metallics and leaf. Through out the workshop we will discuss studio set up, tools of the trade and studio safety.

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R&F Encaustic Demo - Opus Art Supplies - Kelowna
Mar
9
11:00 AM11:00

R&F Encaustic Demo - Opus Art Supplies - Kelowna

R&F Handmade Paints Encaustic demo - in store at Kelowna Location.

Among the oldest forms of painting, encaustics holds many possibilities for the modern artist. Encaustics have a beautiful, otherworldly depth and a tactile, sumptuous surface. The encaustic painting can be as smooth as glass or built up, scraped back, drawn on and carved into. The combinations are endless.

https://opusartsupplies.com/products/encaustic-play-by-pigments-with-megan-macdonald

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Heart Workshop
Feb
10
10:00 AM10:00

Heart Workshop

Create an encaustic heart panel using beeswax medium, pigment sticks and metallic pigments .

Participants will explore a variety of encaustic techniques to create a unique personalized encaustic painting. Once the encaustic medium is applied to the board, colour will be deepened by adding additional layers of encaustic paint to create depth and interest. Panel will be incised and enhanced and finished with pigment sticks and lush metallic powders. Sound overwhelming? Don’t fret. We will walk you through it step by step.

Light lunch, coffee and tea supplied.

All supplies included

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Virtual Encaustic Demonstration for FCA - Central Okanagan
Nov
6
6:30 PM18:30

Virtual Encaustic Demonstration for FCA - Central Okanagan

Have you been curious about Encaustics or ways you can incorporate encaustic into your current art practice?

Among the oldest forms of painting, encaustics holds a myriad of possibilities to the modern artist. Encaustics have a beautiful otherworldly depth and a tactile, sumptuous surface. The encaustic painting can be as smooth as glass or it can be built up, scraped back, drawn on and carved into. The combinations are endless. 

Encaustic is an amazingly durable art form that has been in use for centuries. Encaustic Painting involves using wax medium to which colour pigments have been added, then heated on an encaustic palette and applied to a rigid substrate however, its application goes far beyond that.

We hope you can join Megan Mac Donald as she gives us an demonstration and overview of encaustic painting.

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R&F Pigment Stick Demo at Opus - Kelowna
Jun
11
12:30 PM12:30

R&F Pigment Stick Demo at Opus - Kelowna

Opus has asked me to come back on Saturday June 11th to conduct a second demonstration expanding on the versatility of R&F Pigment Sticks. Focusing the versatility of R&F Pigment sticks and ways artists can incorporate R&F pigment Sticks into their art practice, including techniques such as working on paper, monotypes and cold wax.

This is a heat-free demonstration and the techniques I’ll share require no heated palette, hotbox, torch or heat gun.

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A Shift in Perspective: A Virtual Workshop with Can Wax West
Apr
23
to Apr 24

A Shift in Perspective: A Virtual Workshop with Can Wax West

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 A Shift in Perspective.
Revisiting how we work in encaustic

A little refresh of techniques and shift in perspective on the tools we use in our art practice can have a huge impact on our work and how we approach our craft.
A 6 hour workshop where we will take a fresh look and approach at how we work in encaustic.

Time will be split in to two 3 hour sessions over two days. 10:00am - 1:00pm will be virtual workshop allowing participants time in the afternoon for independent work.

Some of the topics covered but not limited to covered in the workshop.
Surface preparation.
Creating a smooth surface using encaustic medium.
Substrates and substrate alternatives.
Torch talk and heat guns
Marking, making marks on, in and under the wax surface
Making the most of the heated palette. Colour mixing, blending and glazing.
Colour talk
Working with pigment sticks
Image transfer (time allowing )

Recording available for replay in virtual class room for 2 months
My resource guide which includes where I source my supplies for encaustic
Any handouts that I have available on topics covered in workshop.
Access to private FB group where participants can ask questions, share work and connect with other encaustic artists

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ConVergence - Wax on the Water
Apr
6
to Apr 7

ConVergence - Wax on the Water

Introduction to Encaustic Painting - Creating Visual & Physical Dimension in Wax - 2 DAY WORKSHOP

THIS IS A 2-DAY WORKSHOP: Wednesday, April 6 and Thursday, April 7, 2022. Introduction to Encaustic Painting-Creating Visual and Physical Dimension in Wax. Venue: Bartell Studio, Los Osos, CA (you will be given the address when you register).

Among the oldest forms of painting, encaustic holds a myriad of possibilities to the modern artist. Encaustic has a beautiful otherworldly depth and a tactile, sumptuous surface. The painting can be smooth as glass or it can be built up, scraped back, drawn on and carved into. The combinations are endless. This in-depth 2-day workshop will include a discussion regarding various approaches to working in encaustic followed by a brief overview of studio set-up and safety.

We will then dive into substrate and surface prep; ways of using the heated palette for mixing and blending colors, working with encaustic paint to create both visual and physical texture while experimenting with various ways of mark making, including graphite, oil pastel, Stabilo and more. Encaustic encourages every artist to explore and experiment to find their own unique voice.

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