Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is made of heated bees wax mixed with pigments and resin, applied to paper, canvas or wood. Since the medium is thermally malleable, it can be sculpted, heated and melted. Artists often use spatulas, knives, brushes, torches, heat guns or heating tables when painting.
In this workshop we will learn how to work with encaustic on a heating table, this will allow us to have a very fluid, transparent and vibrant paint which we apply on sheets of paper.
The w…
Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is made of heated bees wax mixed with pigments and resin, applied to paper, canvas or wood. Since the medium is thermally malleable, it can be sculpted, heated and melted. Artists often use spatulas, knives, brushes, torches, heat guns or heating tables when painting.
In this workshop we will learn how to work with encaustic on a heating table, this will allow us to have a very fluid, transparent and vibrant paint which we apply on sheets of paper.
The workshop takes 3 hours. No need to have previous knowledge of the medium. You can take the paintings you made home. Bring working clothes.
The workshop is provided by Priscila Fernandes, Portuguese visual artist working at Kunstwerk Kolderveen. Priscila Fernandes has exhibited at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Playgrounds at Reina Sofia Museum, Lesson 0 at Joan Miró Foundation, Art and Radical Pedagogy Reykjavik Art Museum, TENT in Rotterdam and Leisure School at CIAJG. Together with Edward Clydesdale Thomson, she is co-head of Department of the Bachelor of Fine Arts BEAR (Base for Experiment Art and Research) at ArtEZ, Arnhem. Visit her work at www.priscilafernandes.net
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