“Painting with Color and Fire” encaustics workshop by Jaimie Ladysh
March 1-2, from 9 am to 5 pm
This 2-day workshop will cover the basics of working with encaustics. We will go over tools and materials, safety, history, and different techniques. You’ll learn what you need to set up an encaustic art studio at home. Two different approaches of this exciting form of art will be explored; photo encaustic and encaustic collage. All materials are included (except your images.)
Day 1:
- learn about the history of encaustics
- learn the tools and materials
- demonstrate and prepare the board, attach image for photo encaustic
- plan and prepare second board for layering collage
- begin working on prepared board and image to practice with wax, color, and layers
- learn smoothing surfaces
- learn how to create textured surfaces
Day 2
- begin working on photo encaustic
- explore using various types of color materials
- continue working on collage
- learn embedding techniques with tissue paper and materials
- practice glazing
- using stencils
- mark making and incising
- subtractive techniques
- learn finishing techniques
About Artist:
Jaimie is a lens based interdisciplinary artist. Her work is rooted in place in a spiritual way within the natural world. She explores different themes but the ideas throughout are connection to the universal through nostalgic appeal to a place. There is a comforting solidarity and peaceful longing about the past and a photograph is already in the past. Currently exploring digital with edited and some composited images, she prints the images on archival papers, then further manipulates with hand-coloring, painting, and sometimes encaustics. The results are often described as ethereal.
Jaimie has a long use photography of traditional film and silver gelatin, Cyanotype, Van Dyke, Photograms, photo manipulations, infrared, encaustics, and other alternative processes. As a fine art major, she began exploring hand tinting, coloring, and painting of photographs with oils, pencils, and water based media while at the university. She used 35 mm, 2 1/4 x 21/4, and toy cameras.
Her work is archival; made with materials for longevity. She has been in many galleries, press, and venues. Pieces are in private, public, and corporate collections.
