Painting with Wax – Encaustic
CCOM
Encaustic is an ancient painting medium that uses molten beeswax as a binder with pigment - sort of like painting with melted crayons! When it’s hot, it’s ‘wet’, and when cool it’s ‘dry’; and when it’s cool, you can do all kinds of ‘cool’ things with it, then use a heat gun to work on the next phase. Paint, incise, fill, scrape, melt, smudge, blend, even work with stencils. There’s no end to the possibilities for getting amazing effects with this paint!
Materials: There will be a $15 materials fee payable to the instructor.
Instructor: Sarah Petite
Times: 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Dates: Saturday, November 9, 2013
Location: TBA (click here for campus map)
Course Fee: $55 (+HST)
About the Instructor
Sarah Petite received formal art training in Halifax and England in the 80s, but her work in encaustic painting was self-taught and of a pioneering nature. Encaustic is an ancient medium, which has cropped up sporadically in modern times among the oils and acrylics of popular practice. In 1989, with only a page of an artists' handbook to draw from, Petite began a 25-year odyssey, producing many 'wax' paintings that grew from strength to strength, each instructing the next, with techniques honed to a fine degree. Recently, geometric abstraction has proven itself the best answer to encaustic’s virtuosity; and the series 'Game Theory' (see www.sarahpetite.com), paintings inspired by the little parlor games of our material culture, has allowed the artist to explore themes of strategy, rule, control and freedom, while finding out the next wonderful effect that can be achieved with a newly-discovered tool or trick. Sarah Petite maintains two encaustic-equipped studios, in Port Maitland, Nova Scotia (summer), and in Fredericton, New Brunswick (winter).
For more information
Please contact Alison Howells at 452-6360
or email pce@unb.ca
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