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.

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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 March 11th - Sunday March 12th
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!

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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.

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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~

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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)

 

 

The commitment is to your self, your creative self, you inspired, intuitive self keening at the walls. Let it loose to explore and express, all year long, and see what becomes of your creative journey.

Each week, an email inspiration.

Each month, a Zoom gather to review and visit works, share successes and breakthrough, and connect to the web of creative energy we're weaving.

Each quarter, longer reviews and reentries to reignite the determination and commitment.

365 days of creativity. AwakenCreative. Are you ready?

One-a-Day: AwakenCreative Daily Practice 2023 | Open Studio (pbsartist.com)

GlobalGather where we expand and grow in ways we are not yet aware exist.

Meaning making is the heart of humanity. 

Dr William Breitbart

Growth and awareness as to the ‘why’ of why we create begins with each next step. We get together to find our unique why and go on to deeper the creative practice.

Come along and explore your why, and some what and how!

• What do you want to know about a technique, product, process, or procedure?
• What have you been struggling with that I and the gathered community can help work you through?
• How can you bring what you are exploring to the group to enrich the experience you are going through?

The artist, like the monk, has an interior wilderness to discover.

Rowan Williams

Gatherings happen via Zoom, third Thursday each month, 4pm eastern. We ask questions, get answers, work through technical trouble, sort out soul-searching revelations, and work to unearth a deeper capacity of personal expression.

And create! <3

Come along each month* to weave a more meaningful thread of creative expression into the tapestry of the world,

I look forward to you~

in love.

trish

Participants will be contacted a week in advance each month with/for topic suggestions, inquiry prompts, communal creative ideas, and consultation queries so that I can prepare a rich and worthwhile time together!

*Third Thursday, 4pm eastern unless otherwise noted. (Duration determined by group questions and need for consult). Each scheduled separately so be sure to register each month-

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Join artist Anne Hebebrand for a 5 day long cold wax medium and oil workshop in Todos Santos.  An hour away from Cabo San Lucas in Baja California, Mexico, Todos Santos is a vibrant small town full of restaurants, galleries, yoga studios and wonderful beaches, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Be inspired by the colors and scents of Todos Santos to explore your art and connect with yourself and others. 

Cold Wax + Oil I (Beginner - Intermediate) - Jan 23-27, 2023 - CLASS IS SOLD OUT!  Check out the March dates!

Learn how to build a textured and vibrant paint surface using cold wax, oil and R&F pigment sticks. Explore unique techniques using a variety of tools and materials to create richness and depth in your painting through layering. There will be plenty of demonstrations and feedback. This workshop is for artists who are new to working with cold wax and oil, and artists who have a rudimentary understanding of cold wax.

Cold Wax + Oil I (Beginner - Intermediate) - Mar 13-17, 2023 Learn how to build a textured and vibrant paint surface using cold wax, oil and R&F pigment sticks. Explore unique techniques using a variety of tools and materials to create richness and depth in your painting through layering. There will be plenty of demonstrations and feedback. This workshop is for artists who are new to working with cold wax and oil, and artists who have a rudimentary understanding of cold wax.

https://www.annehebebrand.com/workshops