580 West Arapaho Road #271, Richardson, Texas 75080, United States
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Individualized Sessions - One on One or Small Group - Zoom or In-person
Ready to brainstorm ways to progress your ideas and body of work? Would you like to take a dive into a particular technique or a medium? Ready to explore? Lets design something just for you! This can be as short as one hour or we can book several hours or days.
This is an amazing and fun way to work together and I've seen some fantastic work coming out of participants - Thank you for jumping in with me on this beautiful journey!
Below are some of the offerings and pricing. Let me know your area(s) of interest. I'll customize something just for you, with your input and we'll get going on this exciting adventure. All sessions include links to the supplies we'll be using.
Contact me at bonny@theencausticcenter.com for any questions, more info and to schedule your session.
Pricing for One on One sessions or Small Groups:
In Person:
One hour: $100
Book more than six hours at $90 per hour. Sessions can be broken up into various days / weeks.
Times and Days are flexible - including some evening hours.
Home Zoomers:
Book more than six hours at $80 per hour. Sessions can be broken up into various days / weeks.
Some supplies included for In-Person Participants - TBD*
Times and Days are flexible - including some evening hours.
Payment Options:
via Zelle to bonny@bonnyleibowitz.com
via PayPal by requesting a PayPal invoice
ia PayPal by logging into PayPal and sending your payment to bonny@theencausticcenter.com
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
Let's talk and brainstorm a session for you. Please reach out at: bonny@theencausticcenter.com
3D Objects
Explore materials and ways to combine them into 3-D objects. We'll be building forms with wire, acrylic, a spray foam and a two-part foam and or encaustic in various combinations with found objects and other optional materials. Included is my Power Point presentation of artists working today with various materials and installations in exciting ways. We will also look at various options hanging the
Bonny Leibowitz, Hunger Object, 2020, 12"x10"x7", plaster, wire, foam, acrylic
Bonny Leibowitz, Creature, 2020, 30" x 17" x 17", Branches, foam, vinyl, acrylic, wire
Landscape Painting - nice and loose
Play around with approaches to landscape painting from literal to abstract in oils, acrylic, ArtGraf and or inks.
Bonny Leibowitz - Landscape - ArtGraf Viarco Pigmented Tailor Chalk on Yupo
Bonnie Tollefson - Landscape - ArtGraf Viarco Pigmented Tailor Chalk on Yupo
Liz Braman - oil on canvas
Abstraction in Oil or Acrylic
Explore the elements of composition, color, molding paste textures, washes, splashes, opacity, form, line and so much more. This session includes a PDF on abstraction and exercises to help develop your personal vision.
Bonny Leibowitz - Oil (demo)
Bonny Leibowitz - Painting on textured surface using brush and palette knife - can be done with acrylic or oils
Bonny Leibowitz - Painting on textured surface using palette knife - can be done with acrylic or oils
Drawing with ArtGraf Viarco Pigmented Tailor Chalk on Yupo paper
In this session we'll be working with this beautiful water soluble material, ArtGraf Viarco Pigmented Tailor Chalk, using additive and subtractive methods to create a variety of line quality, washes and form which can be applied to abstraction, non-representational or image based work.
Bonny Leibowitz - "Homogeny" ArtGraf Viarco Pigmented Tailor Chalk on Yupo
Trey Hoffmann, Acrylic on Yupo, 24x36
Alcohol Inks, Brusho Inks (and collage optional) on Yupo
In this session we'll be manipulating inks with various tools to create transparent overlays, utilizing the natural reactions of ink on Yupo to lead the way. The paper can then be cut to collage.
Bonny Leibowitz - Alcohol Inks, Brusho Inks and collage on Yupo
Encaustic Session: Painting, Fusing, Incising and Excavating Shapes
In this session we'll be using a heat gun, incising and loop tools and an iron to create a variety of textures and shapes.
Bonny Leibowitz - Encaustic (demo)
Encaustic Portrait / Figure Painting
In this session, we'll be mixing paints on a palette and using pigment sticks along with various natural brushes to work with the figure. You'll be invited to work from photography, drawing and / or imagination.
Bonny Leibowitz - Encaustic (demo)
Photography and Encaustic
In this session, I'll be sharing the best papers I've found for printing which also receive encaustic wax and techniques for collage (and scaling up, if interested). We'll work with pigment sticks and paint to enhance the image.
Bonny Leibowitz - Engage, 2012 30x30 photography, encaustic wax and pigment
Encaustic, Collage and Texture
In this session, we'll be using various papers, and natural elements such as grass and fibers with encaustic to create a textural surface.
Bonny Leibowitz - Encaustic with grasses, inks and paper (demo)
Encaustic Monotype
In this session we'll explore various natural fiber - hand made and machine made papers. We'll be working on the HOTBox with Encaustic paint and embellishing with inks, if desired. This is a very freeing, intuitive and active process.
Bonny Leibowitz - 2013 30x56 encaustic monotype and photography on seichosen
Abstraction in Encaustic Painting
Explore the elements of composition, color, washes, splashes, opacity, form, line and so much more. This session includes a PDF on abstraction and exercises to help develop your personal vision.
Bonny Leibowitz - Nature of the Beast 2020 33.5" x 42.5" x 1" monotype, encaustic paint and pigment on cradled board
Mixed Media
In this session, well be using acrylic, alcohol inks, various papers, collage, speedball inks, scrapers, brushes, brayers and simple monotype processes to create dynamic compositions.
Bonny Leibowitz - acrylic, alcohol inks, various papers, collage, speedball ink
