Exploring Encaustics: Intro to Painting with Beeswax with Desiree Demars

Saturday, Oct. 24, 11am-3pm

$100 tuition + $25 material fee

Encaustic means “to heat or to burn in” and uses a medium of beeswax, pigment and resin as the foundation. Originating with Greek shipbuilders waterproofing vessels and decorating statures around the 5th century BC, it thrived in Roman Egypt with the famous Fayum mummy portraits around 1st-3rd centuries AD.

We will explore this luminous ancient art and learn now to paint with a beeswax based medium. Along with basic techniques using wood cradles, you will explore how to integrate mixed media to create collages and mono-prints on s variety of papers. on various papers to create with the medium.