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There are many reasons wax finds its way into almost every artist’s studio; along with its intrinsic beauty and aroma, its properties offer limitless possibilities. This workshop is for artists wishing to learn the process of encaustic or wax medium painting or those wishing to expand their experience. No experience is required, but some painting experience is helpful.
Demonstrations cover the painting techniques of mixing and applying colors, layering, etching, inlaying and sgraffito (building layers of different colors and scratching through the top layers to reveal the colors beneath), as well as the use of transfers, monotype, and collage. Photographic images may be combined with encaustic techniques if they are printed on absorbent papers such as rice paper, watercolor, or copy paper. The emphasis is on exploration and finding appropriate techniques for individual styles rather than on finished pieces. You’ll learn how to work with wax and heat in a safe manner. A discussion of supplies and suppliers will occur. Directions to the artist’s studio are supplied upon registration.
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Trained as an oil painter at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Carol Odell has worked in commercial design, textiles and photography. Her improvisational, non-objective, color-expressive works are created in oil, encaustic (beeswax medium), or monotype. Beginning with a non-representational structure, she builds paintings with an eye to creating an imagined space with non-specific references to the natural world. She teaches at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Cape Cod Art Association, Kutztown University, in her Chatham studio and mentors local high school art students in the Schools to Careers program. She is a member of and participates in group exhibitions with the Printmakers of Cape Cod, the Monotype Guild of New England, 21 in Truro, and New England Wax. She and her husband, artist Tom Odell, have owned and operated Odell Studios Gallery in Chatham for 35 years. Her works are in private, corporate, and museum collections.
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