Explore the versatile medium of encaustic painting using heated wax to create richly textured and visually compelling pieces of art!
Artist Pamella Allen will unpack this unique process to help you explore the basics of how to prepare your surfaces, mix and apply pigments, and then layer your works with mixed media such as found objects, natural materials, photographs, and other works on paper you’ve created. You will create three unique works of art culminating in a triptych that will showcase your new skills. Whether you are an experienced artist looking to expand your skills or a beginner interested in exploring a new medium, this course is an excellent opportunity to learn the techniques and principles of encaustic painting while creating a cohesive and visually stunning art work. Tuition includes a $65 materials fee.
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Pamella Allen is a Jamaican born, Brooklyn based visual artist in practice for over 30 years whose works have been exhibited in traditional gallery and non-traditional settings, in site specific public art corporate commissions for healing spaces such as Bellevue Hospital for the HHC Art-In-Medicine program, community centers and private collections across the globe.
A largely self-taught expressionist artist, Pamella's work is layered in process. Utilizing traditional acrylic, oil and encaustic painting, printmaking, sculpture, paper making, collage, Installation, photography ...
A largely self-taught expressionist artist, Pamella's work is layered in process. Utilizing traditional acrylic, oil and encaustic painting, printmaking, sculpture, paper making, collage, Installation, photography/video essay & prose to develop her own archetype, a universal language of images inspired by symbolism, indigenous practices and the natural world that speak to the diversity of her Jamaican/African heritage and lived experiences as a woman, an immigrant living in the USA, and a world traveler and sailor. “My works question, place, history, culture, ritual and our relationship to our natural landscapes.”
Art In Activism — Following “a calling to make art with the youth” while living in Africa and then while in residency in India; In addition to her continued studio practice, for the past 12 years Pamella has been in practice as a teaching artist sharing her creative process with community in school settings, senior centers, museums, and healing spaces throughout New York with organizations creating site specific public arts mural, mixed media installations, and anthologies for publication. “The benefit to bringing arts practice into collaboration with the community cannot be overstated, it is priceless watching individuals blossom in the wonder of their own creativity and come together to celebrate their unity and diversity by using their creative voice.”
www.pamellaallen.com
Encaustic Techniques for Painting & Mixed Media
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