Radiant edges of day, veiled in mystery, quiet as a held breath, yet energized by the tensions between shifting darkness and light—these will serve as the inspirations for our weeklong retreat at Lora Murphy's Mulranny Studios, October 3 - 10, 2023! 

More info about the retreat.

Stay another week and join IEA's Celtic Convergence Retreat where Regina will also do a demo on integrating oils and wax.

Visit Regina's website.

October 1st-7th 2023

Your week long opportunity to experiment with art principles and practice imagery development, learn to create a series of works while finding your voice. You will engage in various methods and techniques including photo encaustic, printmaking, incising, mixed media, image transfers, imbedding, and mark-making.

This is the ideal retreat for beginners and seasoned artists alike to allow the landscape to inspire you as we embark upon this journey of exploring Encaustics in New Mexico. Learn More and Register > 

A week-long retreat not unlike EncaustiCamp, but richer, deeper, more intimate and therefore more propelling.

90% of the artists’ work is creative propulsion which animates the 10% to the desired end.

Cezanne 

Take your place at the table~

What’s inside you?

The experiences, education, discoveries, explorations; these all come together to make up the unique form of you. For each new generation stories beg to be told in the voice that can be heard and understood. You, artist, are here to tell these stories, in just the way you do, uniquely, so someone else can hear, learn, grow, and go on to tell it to their own tribe. Ask yourself, how do you want to grow and evolve your practice? What do you feel ready to bring to the world? The answers are sometimes blurred by our day-to-day. Listen to Your Life is time, resource, and inspiration to help you crystalize your path. This way we each, and altogether, become what existence is meant to be. 

What is your way?

Listen to Your Life.

This week-long retreat is all about painting, creating, discovering, exploring, learning, and revealing all the ways in which your hands can come to tell the story of your life in fresh and enlivening ways so that your world can see, hear, and want, more of that. 

Come along; feed your body with good food, movement, and sunshine. Come hungry for the delicious discoveries that await your mind, and feast at the rich banquet prepared for the feeding of your soul.

The time is now.

Listen to Your Life.

Listen to Your Life Retreat | Open Studio (pbsartist.com)

Schedule a 1 or 2-day private workshop in my studio overlooking beautiful Nashville, Music City USA!  I have a spacious, fully stocked encaustic studio that opens up to a large outdoor patio. I offer instruction in portrait, mixed media or encaustic monotype, using my large hotbox. Discover zen mark-making to music...while visiting Music City USA! :) Plenty of hotels and airbnb's nearby. **I offer these year-round, just contact me to schedule.**

For more info see WORKSHOPS  Or email me AlisonFullertonArt@gmail.com. 

An Italian countryside week long encaustic retreat April 30 - May 6th! This unforgettable and transformative journey is awaiting you. We'll stay in a villa nestled along a path of cypress trees in the quaint hillside town of Buonconvento, wander cobblestone streets, and indulge in the tastes and flavors of the region.

This is the ideal retreat for beginners and seasoned artists alike to allow the landscape to inspire you as we embark upon this journey of exploring Encaustics in Italy. Registration is open! Read all about it >

Saturday April 1st - Sunday April 2nd
10:00 am - 4:00pm, Fernandina Beach, Florida

Participants will learn about encaustic history, safety, surfaces, and fusing. In this comprehensive 2-day workshop we will be exploring a variety of techniques such as incising, layering, pigment sticks, mark-making, mixed media collage, mono-printing, and incorporating photos. Designed for beginners and advanced, we will work together to focus on taking your encaustic creativities to a new level!

Learn More and Register > 

31 Days of Starts

March 1 – March 31, 2023

$45.00

A live guided group gathering for the month of March to usher in spring! 

Each day at 1pm eastern a live YouTube 10+minute exercise to begin a new painting. At the end of the month, as the temperatures warm into spring in this northern hemisphere, you will have before you 31 new places to begin from in your painting and creative practice!

We will use paint (come with whatever medium you have; encaustic, acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastel) and charcoal, graphite (pencil), caran d’arche. Mix it up based on what you have in your studio; do not feel you must have these exact materials.

I will work on watercolor paper cut to my desired size, intending a collection of all same size creations. You come with the surfaces and size you want to begin with each day!

This is the second year we will gather this way and feedback has suggested that these creations, and the experience, just get better as you return to them after they’ve had time to rise <3 
I look forward to you all and this time that will surely be a little bit of hitting the refresh button for a coming new awakening season of growth.

31 Days of Starts! | Open Studio (pbsartist.com)

Register here

Art is a line your draw around your thoughts.

Gustav Klimt

Why go deep?

Are you trying to get something out, to say something for others to hear, to paint in a way that finally expresses a dimension of yourself, or the world as you see it, with clarity and recognition? Do you struggle to put into form, color, paragraph, line, the images and emotions, experiences and lessons you have lived, yet feel a great passion to do so, so that maybe others, even one, can have this as a road sign on their own journeying?

Experience leaves deep traces within us.

John O”Donahue

With depth we get breadth and sustenance. You have accumulated years of material wisdom and technique experience, yet something more is necessary in order to bring the fullest capacity of your personal expression to this experience and wisdom. Now more than even the world that needs to awaken to the necessity of art. As Mary Oliver says, Artists are not here to make the world go round, but forward. Understanding your unique value and purpose that brings you to hold a brush in hand will help you to become an integral element is art’s place to move this world forward now.

What will I accomplish from attending?

Art is created in solitude, but not a bubble.

We draw our best out of each other. By being together with like-minded companions and committing to the environment created through the gathering together, we most often find what we don’t always realize we went out to seek; the depth of our best expression across the canvas. A soul expression illuminated by this communion with others~

Listen to Your Life Retreat | Open Studio (pbsartist.com)

WAXING INTENSIVE:Working with Hot Wax & Mixed Media

 3 Day Intensive Encaustic Workshop

               This vibrant workshop combines multiple media techniques with melted beeswax on a variety of surfaces, emphasizing design, texture and color. We work with a combination of both dry and wet media, including soft pastels , watercolor, oil paint/ sticks/ pastels., charcoal, graphite and collage. No acrylic media. All Imagery applicable. Use mediums of choice. Appropriate for continuing painters and collagists.Beginners in Encaustics are welcome!. Instructor supplies the wax medium, wax paint, heating tools( griddles, heat guns, torches) practice surfaces and 1 panel  per student. Please contact: mira@mirawhitefineart.com and www.miraMwhitefineartworkshops.com

Fri-Sun  10 am-4 pm               Tuition $ 400(additional $50 materials fee to instructor)
Studio 55, 55 Howe Road,       Register:http://www.studio55martinez.com/Tel:925 937-6422
Martinez , CA 94553                        
Advance registration required ( workshop limited to 7)

 

 

Sign up here: https://www.rfpaints.com/workshops/glendale-comprehensive-feb-10-feb-12

This workshop is designed for painters/artists interested in exploring the fundamental elements that coalesce to create successful encaustic painting. Following a historic overview of encaustic, students will move through a series of guided exercises focusing on studio setup, paint application, and health and safety. With a strong emphasis on approaching wax as a painting media, students become familiar and comfortable with brushwork, fusing, and layering. Additional techniques we explore include collage, printmaking, image transfer, and combining oil and wax. After each demonstration, participants will have hands on time with the wax to explore and examine the characteristics that make wax a unique material to work with, such as opacity, temperature, adhesion, and texture. Artists working in any painting or print discipline will find this workshop an exciting opportunity to grow their visual vocabulary with wax. This workshop is ideal for beginner to intermediate students.

Sign up here: https://www.rfpaints.com/workshops/glendale-comprehensive-feb-10-feb-12