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Jane Cornish Smith's 2-day Cold Wax Workshop

Abstract Compositions

To Be Announced

10:00 am to 4:00 pm each day

The cost is $475.00 which includes MANY supplies (supply and registration info below)

 

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Explore the endless possibilities of abstract painting with cold wax! Take a thought-provoking immersion into the abstract use of luminous cold wax with oil paint, pastel, inks, mineral spirits, mark-making tools, 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. This versatile medium yields rich and emotive surfaces. Develop your own personal expression in this fun and freeing workshop!

This new 2-day format (description below) has proven to be especially valuable in introducing techniques, layering and bringing work to greater potential! If you've participated in Jane's workshops and would like to continue working on a previous piece or pieces, and get feedback, please bring them with you! See some of the pics from workshops here:

 Cold Wax Workshops with Jane Cornish Smith

 

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Day One:

• Brief introduction on the characteristics of cold wax medium
• PowerPoint on artists past and present, looking at individual approaches on art elements and principles: shape, color, value, line, texture, pattern, contrast, and composition for compelling landscape abstractions!
• Guided exercise on cropping photo references for optimal compositions, thumbnail sketches, and review of black and white value scale
• Demo- taping and wet-into-wet warm up paintings- participants create four small works
• Demo on mixing a color palette with CWM and oil, initial layers
• Participants create first layers on Arches Oil Paper and cradled panels; one-on-one instruction

Day Two:

• Demonstration on adding layers with CWM/oil, powders, pigments sticks, alcohol inks; additive and
• Subtractive techniques
• Participants continue with subsequent layers; one-on-one instruction
• Sharing of one-of-a-kind abstracted landscape artworks!

Provided and Supplies to Bring:

Provided:

• 1 encaustic gessoed 12x12 cradled board Provided ... I will have more boards for sale at the workshop.
• 5 sheets of Arches oil painting paper Provided but you can buy more here
• Messermeister Squeegee: Provided for use at the workshop
• Bowl scrapers: If you'd like to purchase one of your own, here's the link: Bowl Scraper
• Brayers: Provided for use at the workshop. f you'd like to purchase one of your own, here's the Inovart link
• or Speedball brayers in various sizes click here
• Squeegees: Provided for use at the workshop: if you'd like to purchase one of your own, here's a link
• Incising tools: Provided for use at the workshop: but please feel free to bring more of your own: various incising tools: wood skewers, palette knives and toothpicks
• Palettes and wax paper: provided but you are welcome to bring more
• Turpentine or mineral spirits Provided
• Cold Wax medium: 12 ounces of Cold Wax medium Provided: but if you'd like to buy some of your own, here's a link
• Charcoal, Stone Paper, and sandpaper: Provided
• Silicone spatulas: Provided for use at the workshop —2 GLOUE silicone spatulas but here's a link if you'd like to buy your own: here
• Scraping tools: Provided but you are welcome to bring more cardboard and mat board squares for scraping.
• Mat board to mount Stone Paper: Provided
• Alcohol Inks: Provided but you can buy more here: Jane's favorites: adirondack rust/stonewash/pitch black
• One mat board for mounting Stone paper Provided
• Containers for turp: Provided

Bring:

• Bring Oil paint - this can be a variety of your favorite colors but be sure to have a good range and plenty of white. Any brand will do.
• A sketchbook for notes
• Bring Paper towels - one roll per person provided but please bring more
• Bring Tape - blue or green, 1- 1.5”

 

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About Jane

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 glass-lined studio in rural Lone Oak, Texas. www.janecornishsmithart.com

 

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Payment and Registration info:

Please let me know right away if you would like to join in and I will confirm space availability. Spaces fill up quickly!

Payment info:

Please let me know right away if you would like to join in and I will confirm space availability. Spaces fill up quickly! bonny@theencausticcenter.com

Balance due:

TBA

Payment Options (after space availability is confirmed:)

- via Zelle to bonny@bonnyleibowitz.com

- via PayPal by logging into paypal and sending your payment to bonny@theencausticcenter.com or please request a paypal invoice from me.

- By check to The Encaustic Center, 580 W Arapaho Rd. #271, Richardson, TX, 75080

- By credit card; call Bonny at 214-405-5993

- By cash at The Bonny Studio or The Encaustic Center, please call or email Bonny to schedule a time: bonny@theencausticcenter.com or 214-405-5993

Cancellation policy:

In the event of cancellation after the workshop is paid in full by TBA, $365.00 will be refunded if someone from the waiting list is able to attend. Non-payment of the $375 balance by TBA, may result in someone form the waiting list taking the space so please be sure to watch for the balance due email announcement and please be in touch if there are any changes.

 

Please let me know right away if you would like to join in and I will confirm space availability. Spaces fill up quickly! bonny@theencausticcenter.com