Luminous Layering: Introduction to Encaustic
with Kelly Schaub
May 24 & 35
9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
$135 for Members, $165 for Nonmembers
Class meets at 638 E Market Street in Rockport, Texas
Learn the basics of working with encaustic medium and collage. We will experiment with the additive and subtractive qualities of creating with hot wax. This introductory workshop will let you experiment with a variety of techniques and materials and create some finished encaustic collages that use wax to beautifully enhance the look of the papers beneath. We will create textures, transfer images, and embed paper or items with this most versatile of mediums.
About Kelly Schaub
Collage artist Kelly Schaub currently lives and works from her studio in Rockport, Texas and is active in arts organizations in several local arts organizations. Self-taught and a livelong learner, Schaub began exploring mixed media collage in 2014 when she packed up all of her belongings in a vintage RV and began life on the road. In 2020, Schaub launched Collage-Lab.com, an online resource for collage artists. She was profiled in Kolaj Magazine’s World Collage Day Special Edition in 2019. She was honored with a purchase award from the Doug & Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, along with awards for mixed media collage from Art Center of Corpus Christi, Port Aransas Art Center, Art League of South Texas, Victoria Art League, and Art Association of Corpus Christi. She was a Merit Artist at Rockport Center for the Arts in 2019. Additionally, Schaub was awarded a grant for The New Normal – Rockport initiative in 2020. She has also self-published several collections of collage. She has curated international collage exhibits and her work is featured in the recently released book, Collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage, by Laurie Kanyer, MA. Lately, she’s become obsessed with adding encaustic wax to her mixed media collages.
“In 1995, I decided to return to school to finally finish that art degree that I'd begun 23 years earlier. The figure drawing and painting classes I took as I worked toward my degree (BFA, Sam Houston State University '98), gave me new direction as an artist. I like the directness of painting, the marks that can be made, the fact that you can sometimes see the decisions I've made as I worked.”