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Focusing Your Visual Voice with Encaustic: An Advanced Workshop with Lisa Pressman

March 21, 2022 - March 25, 2022

March 21 – 25, 2022 
Ah Haa School for the Arts
Telluride, CO

Join Instructor Lisa Pressman to find the distinctive mark and voice in your paintings. The qualities that make encaustic a captivating material also create technical and compositional challenges for painters. In this class, you will learn various mark making techniques and develop dynamic surfaces using encaustic paint, mixed media including R&F Pigment Sticks. Lisa encourages students to employ application alternatives to strengthen your unique visual language. The workshop will emphasize the importance of compositional elements such as point, line, weight, and space. Learn to control a surface, hone torch fusing skills, understand palette organization, and embrace compositional awareness. With an emphasis on building surfaces, Lisa will guide students using a palette that combines opaque and translucent colors adding visual depth to the finished work. Students will be challenged with exercises that keep you moving around your panels and encourages a steady workflow. Beginning with a prearranged palette all participants will begin at the same pace and then branch out into unique personal directions. Lisa will guide students using a palette that combines opaque and translucent colors adding visual depth to the finished work. Students will be challenged with exercises that keep you moving around your panels and encourages a steady workflow. Conversations surrounding contemporary art, career support, and establishing visual narratives in your work will be themes throughout the class. This class is ideal for artists with an intermediate to advanced understanding of encaustic.

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Start:
March 21, 2022
End:
March 25, 2022