9 am - 5 pm
TSKW Members: $225
Non-members: $270
Required Supply Fee: $75 (See Supply List)
Limited to 12, Includes catered lunch
Sponsored by Lucky Street Gallery
Encaustic, meaning, “to burn in” in Greek, dates back to the 5th Century BC. Now a popular contemporary medium, it is a versatile method of painting with a beeswax based paint kept molten on a heated palette. Bernard, an active and respected nationally exhibiting artist and instructor, will demonstrate and teach participants how to prepare supports, mix colors, apply wax, fuse, etch, layer, combine collage, transfer Xerox images and incorporate found objects. Studio set up and safety and an overview of Encaustic history and contemporary use will be presented.
Skill Level: Open to all.
Day 1 – Discussion of studio set up and safety, supports, encaustic history and contemporary use. Demonstrations: making encaustic medium, was application, fusing, color mixing, masking, scraping, etching a line, pigment sticks and slide or LCD presentation.
Day 2 – Demonstrations in building a support, graphite & Xerox transfers, collage & embedding, incorporation found objects, impasto modeling wax and slide or LCD presentation.
Working with encaustic, both 2 dimensionally and sculpturally, Kim Bernard is inspired by the Sumi brush paintings of Zen masters and exhibits her work nationally. Her recent 2-D encaustic works capture movement: fluid, gestural, spontaneous, whole body movement, as in a dance. The results are sumptuous abstract encaustic paintings that utilize a minimal color palette and repetitive imagery, thick layers of translucent and opaque wax, paper prepared with batik markings and hand rubbed oil stick combined to create multi dimensional panels. Bernard is represented by Arden Gallery in Boston, Boston Sculptors, Bowersock Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Hawthorn Gallery, Birmingham, AL, Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL and McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH. She teaches at the Maine College of Art, Montserrat College of Art and regionally as a visiting artist. Bernard is the founding member of New England Wax, a professional association of artists working with encaustic and has offered numerous presentations on encaustic and sculpture, acted as an invited juror and guest lecturer.
“Adopting this approach to mark making, I place the panel flat on the floor, and allow the spiraling, gestural marks to become a record of my own whole body movement, in much the same way that the Zen master allows the ink to flow off the tip of his Sumi, committing to paper the extension of his Chi, as a culmination of summoned energy. The method that I’ve developed allows me to make marks and “erase” the ones that don’t yield the desired results.” – Kim Bernard
Required $75 Encaustic Supply Fee Provides Students With:
Basic Starter Encaustics Set, hot palettes, torches and heat guns, encaustic medium, supports, pigment sticks, impasto modeling wax, and dedicated work space.
In addition, participants should bring to the workshop:
Brushes, natural hair only, cheap is OK, a variety of sizes
Razor blades, one sided, flat
Tracing paper
Wax paper
Scissors
Sponge
Spoon
Masking tape
Tuna cans
Vegetable oil
Newspaper
Paper towels
*Materials for embedding, anything goes
*Materials for collage
*Xerox images
*You will need these on the Day 2, I will describe in more detail what to bring on Day 1.
