Layered Stories: Encaustic Collage
with Lyn Belisle,
Penny Redmon Visiting Lecturer
Lecture & Workshop: February 17 | 10AM-4:30PM
204 S Austin St Rockport, TX
$40 Supply Fee | Members Only
Workshop Description
Layered Stories: Encaustic Collage is an all-level workshop designed to introduce you to simple encaustic techniques, composition mastery, and layering.
This popular workshop allows you to use your own images or studio images to layer stories through translucent beeswax and mixed media.
The Project – create a narrative encaustic collage that tells a compelling story using photos and textures.
The Process – create two encaustic collages on substrates. Explore effective story-telling composition. Enhance the wax and images with mixed-media techniques.
The Goal – enjoy learning about the beauty of beeswax as a mixed-media tool while developing your skills in collage composition.
Encaustic:
Enhancing collage with encaustic medium or beeswax is a natural extension of mixed media studio practice. It is as if beeswax and paper were made for each other. Encaustic wax gives paper a luminous quality and sometimes makes it translucent, which is great for layering. Layering, glazing, embedding, stylus incising, subtractive impressions and markmaking and some of the basic techniques we will explore in combination with our narrative images.
Composition:
Artists have a general idea of composition and what to add first and second and so on. But then all of the principles and elements of art add jumble and hesitation as we try to take those first critical steps toward a meaningfully structured mixed media piece. And carrying it through to completion without some kind of a roadmap can be tough. This workshop helps us build that roadmap through Alignment, Breathing space, and Thirds.
Requirements:
Students must be a member in order to attend the lecture and participate in the workshop.
Supplies will be provided. Click here to view provided supplies.
About the Instructor
Lyn Belisle is a nationally-known teacher, artist, designer, and writer. She teaches mixed-media workshops at Lyn Belisle Studio in San Antonio, which she founded in January of 2013. She also teaches nationally, most recently in Santa Fe, Provincetown, Washington State, and Taos.
Her online workshops and ebooks cover an array of creative topics for all levels of learners. Her favorite media are earthenware, paper and fiber. She has authored two articles for Cloth Paper Scissors magazine as well as a coloring book on the folk art of Mexico.
Lyn has had six one-person gallery exhibits since 2011, and recently retired from the faculty in the Computer Science Department at Trinity University to work full time at her studio. She has work at The Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, Marta Stafford Fine Art in Marble Falls, Texas, and in the San Antonio Art League & Museum. Please visit her website, www.lynbelisle.com to learn more about her art and her workshops.
Click on the links below to connect with this artist.
Website: https://www.lynbelisle.com/
Blog: http://earthshards.com/shards/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lyn.belisle
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynbelislestudio/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/belisledesigns
About the Penny Redmon Visiting Lecture Series
Established by Mary Evelyn Atkinson in 2016 The Penny Redmon Visiting lecturer Fund promotes artistic excellence in adult learners. Visiting lecturers put forth a lecture and then a lesson plan featuring innovative art techniques, methodologies and use of atypical materials to create art. Since 2016 the Fund has brought a total of 11 artists from different parts of the United States to teach non-traditional, new artistic techniques. Workshops and lectures are offered free to members of the Rockport center for the Arts. Through The Penny Redmon Fund, Rockport Center for the Arts maintains Rockport’s long-standing tradition of artist mentoring and the promotion of excellence. Atkinson was Rockport Art Festival Master Artist in 1998.