Small Group/ Two Day Workshop at R&F

Wednesday & Thursday, December, 27 & 28, 2023. 9am-5pm. Limit 4 people.

This will be the last workshop I will be teaching at R&F Handmade paints (the workshop program will be ending early in 2024). If you haven't had a chance to visit the factory in Kingston, NY, and work in their amazing workshop room, now is the time. This workshop will not be announced on the R&F web site. So, lunch and accommodations are not included, but all R&F paints are included, and tools will be available for use during the class. You just need to bring any panels you plan to work on. The workshop will take place at the R&F Handmade Paints factory in Kingston, NY.

The workshop will teach the methods I use combining digital images with wax, and incorporating mixed media; India ink, stained paper, pencil, powdered graphite, monoprint, acrylic paint, etc. We will be working on Japanese papers, and I will print your images before we meet for the workshop. (So you'll need to get them to me before December 13). Cost for the two days is $450.00, check or paypal.

Feel free to contact me for more info.

Workshop Includes: prints, wax supplies, encaustic paint, tools for painting and gluing, paint and lots of art supplies.

Materials Needed: laptop, camera, wood panels or alternative substrates.

Register: Leahwax1@gmail.com

Cost: $1200 (50% deposit to reserve your spot — payment in full due by March 15)

This workshop will address ways to work with digital images printed on Japanese papers, as well as Hahnemuhle paper that combine images with wax, graphite, acrylic paint, encaustic paint, monoprints, geliplates, mark-making, pigment sticks, and a bunch of other techniques!

Leah and Wayne each have a unique way of approaching photographic images. Embracing the use of hand-made elements and including them in the mix by incorporating wax, mark-making, and mixed media. This workshop will allow students to go beyond the capture of a camera. Both artists stress the importance of applying ways to physically alter images while working with methods that normally embrace repetition, stability, and predetermined results.

Each student will have their own images printed by Wayne on Japanese papers before the workshop. In addition, we will have a live model to photograph and a single image for each student from that shoot will be printed by Leah on Hahnemuhle papers.

Combining a variety of media has always been part of Wayne’s approach to expand an idea into a new direction. Wayne’s current techniques push his portrait works to go beyond the person, beyond the face, and to transform the image into something other than a headshot. Rather than use a face simply to identify, Wayne’s approach is to offer options, or directions that change the expected into something else. The methods applied in his work challenge the restrictions of a digital photograph by turning the image into something unique and one-of-a-kind.

Leah’s current techniques include digital photography, collage and painting. Combining beautiful papers of various weights and opacity Leah alters the original subject matter to create a fantasy or dream image. Her art tells stories using visual elements like flower stencils, found letters and mark-making. The layers are used to cover and veil the subject and control what is seen and imagined in the art. Leah is inspired by alternative photographic techniques and the alchemy of the darkroom so her work is organic and shows the intensity of her handling the surface with heavy equipment like a razor blade and a torch. 

Friday Evening, 4-7pm:

• Meet & Greet (Wayne and Leah do a little demo) show some art and have some snacks

Saturday, 11am-6pm:

• Photograph model in Leah’s studio
• Edit and print photos to glue on panels
• Demonstrate alternative ways to make art on thinner papers. Gelli plate prints, monoprints, ink spills, splatters and use of drawing and painting methods to create lightweight textures to use as overlays in the wax on Sunday. Leah will print two 11x17 prints for students (rice paper, store bought lightweight paper, Tengucho, party napkins, etc.).

Sunday, 11am-6pm:

• Wayne’s demo: layering papers with encaustic wax and embedding textures over imagery to create double exposures.
•  Leah’s demo: embedding thin paper over wax and painting with encaustic and pigment sticks 
• Work time in studio Sunday afternoon.
• (The studio is open until 9pm Saturday & Sunday for independent work after workshop instruction.) 

This will be one of the last workshops I will be teaching at R&F Handmade paints (the workshop program will be ending early in 2024. If you haven' had a chance to visit the factory in Kingston, NY, and work in their amazing workshop room, now is the time. I will teach one other (2 day workshop) in the month of December, also limited to four students. This workshop will not be announced on the R&F web site. So, lunch and accommodations are not included, but all R&F paints are included, and tools will be available for use during the class. You just need to bring any panels you plan to work on. The workshop will take place at the R&F Handmade Paints factory in Kingston, NY.

The workshop will teach the methods I use combining digital images with wax, and incorporating mixed media; India ink, stained paper, pencil, powdered graphite, monoprint, acrylic paint, etc. We will be working on Japanese papers, and I will print your images before we meet for the workshop. (So you'll need to get them to me before November 15). Cost for the day is $275.00, check or paypal.

Feel free to contact me for more info.

Working with photography and layering using encaustic and mixed media

Location: R&F Paint Studio and DRAW Studio (Kingston, NY)

Workshop Schedule: 

• Saturday at R&F Paint Studio: 10 AM-5 pm
• Sunday Photo Session (live model shoot), and Editing at DRAW Studio: 10 AM-5pm
• Monday at R&F Paint Studio: 10 AM-5 pm

(No snow date. Full refund for extreme weather cancellation)

Tuition:

$650

All paint for the workshop will be included by R&F.

Students may purchase R&F products at a discounted workshop rate.

About Wayne

Wayne’s current techniques using wax and digital imagery are a culmination of experimenting with materials for art making. Combining a variety of media has always been part of his approach to creating and expanding an idea into a new direction. His focus on portraits incorporates ways to go beyond the person, beyond the face, and to transform the image into something other than a “mug shot” or “head shot”. Rather than use a face simply to identify, Wayne’s approach is to offer possible options, possible directions that change the expected, or even the familiar into something else. The methods applied in his work challenge the restrictions of a digital photograph by turning the image into something unique or one of a kind, and to use a digital file to create a “non-digital” art object.

About Leah

Leah’s current techniques include digital photography, collage, and painting. Combining beautiful papers of various weights and opacity Leah alters the original subject matter to create a fantasy or dream image. Her art tells stories using visual elements like flower stencils, found letters and mark making. The layers are used to cover and veil the subject and control what is seen and imagined in the art. Leah is inspired by alternative photographic techniques and the alchemy of the darkroom, so her work is organic and shows the intensity of her handling the surface with heavy equipment like a razor blade and a torch.

About the Workshop

This workshop will address ways to work with images printed on Japanese papers, Hahnemuhle paper and how to combine those images with wax, graphite, acrylic paint, encaustic paint, mark making tools, and a bunch of other stuff. Each student will send images to be printed on 2 sheets of paper prior to the workshop, and one sheet will be printed on Tengucho after the Sunday photo shoot, to use during the Monday class.

Deadline for images to Leah is Friday, January 20.

Each participant can connect and discuss print preparation with Leah before the files are due to print. Images from the Sunday photo shoot will be printed by Wayne on Sunday evening.

*Leah will print 1 - sheet 11 x 17 Hahnemuhle photo rag 188gsm, 1 - sheet of 13 x 19 Hahnemuhle rice paper *Wayne will print 1- sheet Tengucho print area 22 x 36

*Students should bring a laptop with photo editing software and plan to edit images Sunday for printing.

Exploring methods to layer above and below, and ways to reveal and obscure, while working with your own images, will be part of the focus for the workshop. We will also have a unique opportunity to photograph on Sunday and work with scenery, architecture, nature, and a model for other possible photographic elements to add to your layers. This workshop will be cohesive with time in the studio and time to reflect on both painting and photography.