Making Your Mark with Photo Collage and Color Theory

 This 2-day workshop will bring together several methods to create beautiful, layered artworks that can be both a photograph and a painting. We’ll explore color mixing to give you “Color Knowledge as Color Power” while developing imagery with a focus on using photographs as collage. This process involves printing photographs on lightweight tissue paper and embedding the images in the encaustic medium.  We’ll also explore image transfers and simple methods to edit your images to combine with wax.

Layers can be created by using oil sticks and paint to add pigment above or below the photographs for color and depth.  There will be lots of one-on-one feedback and support to help you create a body of work, gain confidence, and expand your voice with encaustic.

Jodi has been a full-time working artist and teacher in Minneapolis for over 27 years. She has taught printmaking, acrylic and encaustic painting as well as book arts classes/workshops at colleges and art centers regionally and internationally including in the Netherlands, Ireland and Arrowmont, Penland and Haystack Schools of Art.

Her artwork has been shown nationally receiving numerous public art awards and is in many private and corporate collections. She is the recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Grant in 2021 and 2018.  Jodi received a BFA degree in Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MCAD, where she instructed printmaking for over 9 years. She received a Hinge Arts Residency in 2020 through the Springboard for the Arts.  She is a CORE teaching Artist for R&F Handmade Encaustic Paints, Ambassador artist for Ampersand Art and Silverbrush Ltd. She teaches GOLDEN acrylic and encaustic painting workshops in her studio at Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art where she has been a co-op member for 18 years in North Loop area of Minneapolis.

For more information, available artwork and workshops please contact Jodi at

www.jodireeb.com