Workshops
- Encaustic and Collage Basics
- Comprehensive Photo Encaustic, NEW!
- Intro to Photo Encaustic
- Photo Fusion
- Silkscreen and Stencil Portrait
- Club Krafty
We always welcome new workshop ideas. Prospective teachers can email us here.
WAL*ART is a place where art happens!
Encaustic 101- Working with Wax and Pigment
This workshop covers the basic painting, collaging, and fusing techniques for encaustic (painting with wax and pigment). We give workshop participants the tools, supplies and instruction on how to achieve the results they desire. Artists already familiar with the techniques and materials can use the equipment and supplies for a modified price.
PRICE: $200 for new workshop students. ( $125 for instruction, plus $75 for materials fee). Includes basic instruction and all encaustic materials.
$125/day for returning workshop participants or experienced encaustic artists who would like the use of specialized hot palettes, other tools, and supplies for this medium.
Registration: Please contact WAL*ART at 310-274-9055 or send an email to rsvp@walartinc.com
Registration must be completed at least one week before workshop. Payment is due in full at time of registration.
Silkscreen // Mixed Media // Stencil Workshop
In this two-day workshop you will create a series of silkscreened and stenciled ‘Andy Warhol style’ prints. Each participant will be photographed (or have the subject of their desire photographed at WAL*ART) and go through the process of turning a digital photograph into a high-contrast black and white printmaster.
From the master image, you will be instructed on how to cut a stencil or plate, mount it and pull 12 prints from the screen that will serve as the basis for your series. From there, students are shown a variety of techniques to paint, collage, spray and augment the original images.
CHECK OUT OUR VIDEO ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP!
No previous art experience is necessary. You’ll be amazed at what you can create in this two day intensive workshop!
Price: $250 for instruction $50 materials fee
If you would like to use an existing photograph, please email it to us with registration. Please provide three options.
Registration: Please contact WAL*ART at 310-274-9055 or send an email to rsvp@walartinc.com
Registration must be completed at least one week before workshop. Payment is due in full at time of registration.
Comprehensive Photo Encaustic: TBA
Have you ever seen a photograph layered with wax? Have you ever wanted to have everything at your fingertips to explore the conjunction of these two media? This exciting new class is the brainchild of 20 years combined experience of Jamie Beardsley and Eve-Marie Bergren in photography and encaustic, and provides a giant playground of possibilities for the emerging artist.
The potential of combining digital photography and the ancient technique of encaustic painting yields beautiful and ethereal images. By combining photography and encaustic, the artist transcends the boundaries of printmaking because each repetition of an image becomes unique. Photography, which draws on the left brain sensibility of controlled outcome, combined with encaustic, an accidental and sometimes uncontrollable media together create an interesting tension. In this three day course, we will introduce various techniques that push the boundaries of the cutting edge technology in combination with wax. We will be working with alternative cyanotypes, various transfer techniques & digital negatives in new ways, at the same time having full access to Photoshop digital manipulation and Epson Fine Art printers on silk and watercolor paper at the WAL*ART studios. We will additionally show uses of oil sticks, encaustic medium and creating dimensional space in wax by pouring and brushing. The possibilities are unlimited. This workshop is recommended for individuals with a confident working photographic or encaustic background.
Instructor Eve-Marie Bergren taught for R & F Handmade Paints for 9 years at various art centers around the country. Her focus is encaustic and photography in installation with an emphasis on identity and community.
Photo Fusion with Barbara Smith
An introduction to combining your digital photos with mixed media. You will create several works on fine art paper and rigid substrates. In addition to your projects, you will take home a DVD demonstrating several inkjet transfer techniques- a retail value of $40!
Price: $270 instruction, $25 materials fee
Please Bring: A selection of photos (4-12) on CD (300 dpi)
Registration: Please contact WAL*ART at 310-274-9055 or send an email to rsvp@walartinc.com
Registration must be completed at least one week before workshop. Payment is due in full at time of registration.
Intro to Photo Encaustic with Barbara Smith
Can’t paint a picture to save your soul? In this workshop, we will focus on photos as the basis for encaustic masterpieces. Dipping, pouring, adding texture, incising, rubbing, and transferring will all be covered. This is a straightforward and simplified approach to encaustic… immediate gratification is guaranteed. No previous experience with encaustic is necessary.
Price: $135 for instruction, $25 materials fee (includes paper, wood panels, and encaustic media)
Please Bring: 4-8 photos on CD or portable drive, or bring scans of your favorite CD or album covers.
Registration: Please contact WAL*ART at 310-274-9055 or send an email to rsvp@walartinc.com
Registration must be completed at least one week before workshop. Payment is due in full at time of registration.
Ongoing Creative Salon:
CLUB KRAFTY - dedicated to awakening and empowering the artist within.
These informal evenings will cover a variety of creative, hands-on projects from all over the artistic spectrum. Occurring the last Thursday evening of each month 6-11PM, they are designed to be educational, casually social and creatively fulfilling. Each evening will feature a different project and no previous art experience is necessary. Because of a limited capacity, advance reservations are strongly suggested to assure we have enough art supplies and instructors to accommodate. Designed to be affordable and accessible to all, price will vary dependent on complexity of materials and guest artist facilitator(s).
Discover the Auratone: TBA
This mini-workshop is an introduction to the process where your own photographs will be altered to create Auratone prints for framing, cards, and much much more!
If you’re familiar with the early photographic processes like daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, sepiatones, and tintypes, you know the luscious look of this media. You’ll be amazed that you can create this effect without a camera or darkroom. Come to Club Krafty and learn how to do it in one evening and leave with beautiful art you made yourself!
Price: $50 includes all materials.
Please Bring: A selection of photos (4-12) on CD (300 dpi)
Registration: Please contact WAL*ART at 310-274-9055 or send an email to rsvp@walartinc.com
Registration must be completed at least one week before workshop. Payment is due in full at time of registration.