Create Your Mantra, Oct 26-27

In Tibet, Buddhists carve their mantras into rocks as a form of meditation. Here we will create a 3D encaustic block, and ‘carve’ our mantras into it.  Choosing your mantra – words or phrases that will help you in your artistic endeavors – will be an awakening experience. 

Day one we will talk about what we see for our artistic selves, how we want to live and grow as artists, while covering our blocks with plaster gauze (as well as working on flat boards for those new to collage and encaustic), gathering our bits and pieces of ephemera, thoughts and words to describe ourselves, our mantras.

Day two we will begin to cover our blocks with wax, adding collage, texture and bits of ephemera to personalize, as well as carving our words, completing our mantras.

This 3D encaustic collage class starts with a brief history of encaustic painting and basic instruction on safety. You will be introduced to the basics of painting with pigmented wax, including fusing, incising and layering. We’ll delve into the myriad of ways to manipulate the wax through collage, stenciling, embedding and photo transfers.

After the demonstration of each technique, you will be able to take everything you have learned and incorporate it into your mantra cube.

This is a 2 day class, 10am-1pm each day.