This class is geared towards expanding your creative side by working with encaustic painting- an ancient beeswax-based medium and combining it with other media, including watercolor, ink, pigment sticks, collage, and photo transfers. Specialized instruction will focus on specific ways to make interesting artwork using the art elements and various brushwork techniques, including glazing, dry brush, scraping, and layering.

$595/ All Supplies are included! Class limit: 6 students. (18 years old and up.) Sponsored by Ampersand Art Supply and our friends at Topo Chico.

Come learn how to work with this sensual medium and create beautiful, luminous, and joyful art. Testimonials

Here are just some of the things you will learn how to do:

• Create both Smooth and Textural surfaces.

• Learn Color Mixing and color extending -for sumptuous translucent and opaque layers.

• Learn how to use encaustic gesso, Sumi ink, and pigment sticks with encaustic.

• Learn how to add collage pieces to an encaustic painting.

• Learn multiple techniques to create depth in encaustic.

• Learn how to use Sgraffito and intarsia in encaustic.

• Learn how to embed photos and direct transfers.

  You will leave with 6 small encaustic mixed media paintings that you created in class!
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10 AM-4:00 PM Saturday/ 1-hr. Lunch break each day. No Experience is necessary. Free and easy Parking.

Class limit: 6 students. (18 years old and up.) Sponsored by Ampersand Art Supply and our friends at Topo Chico.

Offered one weekend every month. Choose your dates in the dropdown menu

• September 12-13, 2026.

• October 17-18, 2026.

• November 7-8, 2026.

• December 5-6, 2026.

2027:

• January 16-17, 2027

• February 6-7, 2027

• March 13-14, 2027

15% Discount for signing up four people together during checkout.

Want a weekend not currently listed? Contact me if you have 2 other friends or more to register together for a special edition weekend.

Leslie has taught Encaustic Painting for over 15 years, including at The Austin Museum of Art’s Art School at Laguna Gloria, The University of Texas at Austin, BlueMoon Glassworks, and The Athenaeum in La Jolla. She has been awarded multiple special artist project grants in both Austin and San Diego to expand her interdisciplinary work. Her teaching style is upbeat, fun, and informative. You will learn a lot while having a wonderful experience.
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