Encaustic Workshop Day 2

On day 2, while waiting for Daniella Woolf's next batch of demos, I continued to add  and scrape back layers of clear and pigmented wax on my Day 1 panels.

 

Daniella is an experienced teacher and kept giving us new techniques to work with throughout the day.

Donna Clement and I shared a palette of melted wax.

This sampler panel demonstrates different techniques and media for marking the wax surface.
Day 2 was filled with learning and exploring the encaustic medium.

Maiwa & Daniella Woolf

After waiting many years I have finally had a Maiwa Symposium experience.
I attended Daniella Woolf's encaustic workshop.

Having no experience with the encuastic medium, I was very pleased Daniella began at the beginning.
Warming the panel.

Preparing the panel.

And so on the first day I built up layers of wax...

...scraped them back then added more.
It was so different from stitching and dyeing.

MISSA

I attended the 1st week of this years Metchosin Summer School of the Arts out at the beautiful Lester Pearson College campus in Eleanor Hannan's "Compositional Cloth: The Face" workshop.

She showed us a number of ways to make stamps and patterns after a few warm up exercises to get us thinking about the face.

Eleanor showed us how to make a silk screen.

And how to make all the right sounds when using screen and paint.

The first marks we made on our 3 to 5 metres of cloth where to be bold and free.
I was not impressed when, with my first stroke, the too runny paint fell out of the brush to make a red puddle, a heavy-handed start  for my cloth.