Wondrous Wax: Mixed Media Meets Encaustic with Mira M. White — Jun 21 - 23

Dates: June 21, 2025 → June 23, 2025
Times: 10-5 with a 45 min lunch break
Level: All levels
Membership Price: $545 (Members can use code MEMBERS10 upon checkout to receive 10% off)

Workshop Description:
This vibrant workshop combines multiple media techniques with melted beeswax on a variety of surfaces, emphasizing unity if design, texture and color. We work with a combination of both dry and wet media, including soft pastels, watercolor, oil paint/sticks, graphite and collage. No acrylic media. All imagery applicable. Use mediums of choice. Appropriate for continuing painters and collagists. Beginners in Encaustic are welcome! Instructor supplies the wax medium, wax paint, heating tools( griddles, heat guns, torches) practice surfaces and 1 panel per student.

About the Instructor:
Mira M. White is a professional artist and teacher who was trained at CCAC, BFA, MFA. Mira has worked mostly in independent art centers for over 40 years. She conducts multimedia workshops throughout the US and in Europe. Her arsenal of materials has expanded over the years and her range of media includes all aspects of drawing, oils, watercolor, collage, and encaustic. Most of her current work would have to be called narrative abstraction, as she is currently trying to meld her previous predilection for representation with a love for mark making and abstraction.

MATERIALS LIST FOR WAX WORKSHOP

Due to the nature of this workshop, the instructor is supplying many of the materials and

requires a materials fee of $75  to  help defray the costs. Please pay at the workshop. CASH is

preferred payment.  

 INSTRUCTOR  BRINGS :

 1 Cradled, primed Birch Panels 8’x8”  for each student

 3 8 ply museum mat board , small pieces for mounting  8”x8” for practice pieces

Paint Brushes

Encaustic Medium ( wax with damar resin)

Encaustic Paint ( the rainbow spectrum plus white)

Heat Guns, torches, heating surfaces ( electric griddles, fry pans)

Graphite Powder, Charcoal powder

Some scraping tools

Some Collage tools

Some Oil Pastels , soft pastels & Drawing Media, watercolor in spray bottles

Tubs for pouring Wax

MATERIALS YOU BRING :  

1. You will need 300 or 140 lb. w/c paper or 4 or 8 ply museum board – 1 full sheet

(22”x30”)cut up in 6 “ squares for exercises You should  have about 15 6″x6″ pieces for

samplers

2. Your collection of watercolor, drawing, oil  and collage materials including:

Watercolor crayons, charcoal, oil pastels, water -based graphite pencils, colored pencils,

Oil paint sticks, graphite pencils. Wax loves Oil. No acrylic paint

3. 3  Additional Surfaces to work on:  Must be Absorbent and Inflexible

2 Wood *or prepared Encaustic panels—8”x8” up to 14”

* 1/2″  birch or finished plywood is great

ADDITIONAL:

           3 Bristle utility brushes ,  variety of sizes ½”, 1”, 2” – cheap are fine.

           Scissors, Tweezers,

           Collage materials: Papers, Threads, Xerox images, photos

          Masking Tape for stenciling—1/2 “ , 1”

          Rags/ Wear crummy clothes, bring an oven mitt

          The following mediums are entirely optional but extremely useful

           Oil Paint Sticks ( Sennelier or R&F are best)

           Oil Pastels

           Woody Stabilo pencils

Soft Pastels  – both stick and/or Pan pastels