This workshop is for students who are new to encaustic and for those who want to expand their skills, get another point of view or to explore more possibilities. Students will be oriented to all equipment, safety measures, materials and some history. Demonstrations and explanations of various techniques are offered in a step-by-step method with encouragement to improvise. These demos are offered at intervals with time to practice in between, throughout the course. Wherever you are in your experience working with encaustic, I will take you to the next level.

We will cover the following:
*Getting started with surface preparation
*Melting and fusing
*Working transparently
*Working with rubber stencils.
*Leaf and pine imprints and their wax reliefs

as time and interest allows

*Making lines and dots with the stylus and batik pen
* Using cold metal tools
* Making “jellyrolls and geodes”
* Working with accretion.
* Enhancing the surface with heat sensitive foil and pastels
* Working with printed transfers “

Lynda Ray has been working with encaustic since its re-emergence 1986. Originally from Massachusetts where she graduated from Mass. College of Art and Design she then attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where she had the honor of studying with Joseph Campbell and Agnes Martin. Shortly after she was the recipient of the Mass. Artist Foundation Fellowship in Sculpture and was a Finalist in Painting.  Lynda’s work and interview with Julie Karabenick are posted on the international forum Geoform.net. Her work is included in The Art of Encaustic Painting by Joanne Mattera. Lynda has exhibited her work and held workshops throughout the United States. Her work was included in exhibitions in Massachusetts including; Depth Perception and Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. Curator: Michael Giaquinto. She currently lives in Richmond, VA and is represented by Space Gallery, Denver, CO.