Next Level Cold Wax Compositions workshop with Jane Cornish Smith

Upcoming dates To Be Announced

The cost of the workshop is $375 and includes many supplies

Go to the next level and explore the endless possibilities of abstract painting with cold wax! Building on previous art making, take a thought-provoking immersion into the use of luminous cold wax with oil paint, mineral spirits, mixed media, mark-making materials, brushes, scrapers, and imagination. Composition, color, and contrast will be addressed, along with an exploration of visual elements such as line, shape, pattern, texture, mass, and depth. The workshop will include discussion on how to create landscape abstractions, as well as other non-representational works. This versatile medium yields rich and emotive surfaces. Develop your own personal expression in this fun and freeing workshop!

Supplies provided:

• Arches Oil Paper
• Cold wax medium
• Alcohol Inks
• PanPastels
• Odorless mineral spirits
• Paper for collaging
• Newsprint paper
• Bowl Scrapers
• Inovart Brayer
• Speedball Brayer
• Charcoal and pencil
• Freezer paper
• Gloves
• Paper towels
• Various mark-making tools for Incising, texturizing, stenciling, and scraping: you can use various ceramic tools, or toothpicks, bamboo skewers, palette knife, paper clips, scrunched up wax paper or plastic wrap and or bubble wrap
• Additional thin papers for collaging, such as newspaper and tissue paper

Some Provided but bring what you can:

• Reference photos or printouts: Inkjet or Xerox’s of landscapes or other images of your favorite places or objects, etc. with a good contrast of lights and darks.

Bring

• Oil paint - this can be a variety of your favorite colors but be sure to at least have basic yellow, blue, red, and plenty of white. Any color can be mixed from the three primaries! To get a variety of cool, warm, opaque, and transparent colors, I usually use Cadmium Yellow Light, Indian Yellow, Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarin Crimson, Ivory Black, Titanium White. Any brand will do.
• Tape - blue or green, one 1” roll
• Palette knives- any medium metal diamond shaped type Palette knife set
• Natural bristle brushes

Optional

• Sketchbook or paper and pencil, for taking notes and making thumbnail sketches.
• R&F Pigment Sticks Encaustic Center carries R&F pigment sticks at a 20% discount
• Optional- A smock or apron - CWM can get messy

Originally from Canada, Texas-based artist Jane Cornish Smith’s nomadic childhood, along with her artist mother, fostered an appreciation for creative expression from a young age. Jane produces paintings and sculptural work with diverse materials and subject matter, but has concentrated in recent years on cold wax and encaustic mediums. She has attended artist residencies at the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy; Vermont Studio Center; and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and earned BFA, MLA, and MFA degrees. An award-winning artist, her work hangs at the University of Texas at Tyler, Brookhaven College, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery in Wales, the Cancer Support Community of North Texas, and others. She enjoys teaching, and making art from her studio in rural Lone Oak, Texas.  www.janecornishsmithart.com