Waxing Poetic: An Adventure in Beeswax Collage
| Instructor Claudine Hellmuth September 17, 18 + 19 Fri |6-9pm| Sat |10-6pm| Sun |10-2pm| |
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Class Description: Learn how to create a collage entirely with beeswax – no other glues or adhesives are necessary! You’ll learn beeswax transfers, stamping in wax, layering collage, glazing colors and more!
Mistakes can not be made with beeswax. If you don’t like the placement of your papers you can remove them – even months later – and easily adjust your artwork! You’ll be amazed by how easy and fun beeswax collage can be! The flexible nature of this workshop will afford each student an opportunity for one-on-one guidance, so come armed with your questions about collage and art making and we can help each grow as artists! | |||||
Topics Covered:
Getting started with the proper materials to collage with beeswax
Beeswax transfers – transfer photocopies directly into wax! Beeswax stamping Glazing color to enhance your artwork |
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Workshop Fee: $349 Lodging: $139 per night ($69.50 pp w/ double occupancy) incl. full breakfast Materials Kit: $50 base charge, varies with workshop, plus ME tax Lunch: $30 for catered lunch on Saturday and Sunday |
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About Your Teacher:
Claudine Hellmuth is a nationally recognized collage artist, author and illustrator. She combines photos, paint, paper and pen into quirky, whimsical-retro collages that she calls Poppets®.
Her artworks have been featured on The Martha Stewart Show, in Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion magazine, The New York Times, on HGTV’s “I Want That!” and on the DIY Network’s program, “Craft Lab.”
In addition to creating her artwork full-time, Claudine teaches collage workshops in the US & Canada, and she has written 2 books about her techniques, “Collage Discovery Workshop” and “Collage Discovery Workshop: Beyond the Unexpected.” She has also produced three instructional DVD workshops.
Originally from Orlando FL, Claudine now lives in Washington DC with her husband Paul and their very spoiled pets – Mable & Stanley the cats.
Materials:
-A small amount of collage paper and object items will be provided to create with, however please bring a few of your favorite things to work with for this class. Don’t feel that you have to bring tons of stuff, but a nice variety will help. Please remember we plan to work in a small scale. So think no larger than about 8×10.
-A box of crayons. Any brand. Claudine likes the huge boxes of Crayola because they have so many amazing colors!
-Anything you would like to use as your artmaking surface: pre-stretched canvas, canvas board, cigar boxes, altoid tins, hard cover journals or any other support surface you would like.
-Xacto knife or scissors
-Xerox and color copies of old family photos – inkjet prints are OK
-A variety of collage papers and collage items
We will provide:
-beeswax
-tools to work with the wax
-a few paints and oil pastels to share, but it is often easier to work if you have your own materials.
Other things to bring:
-Heat gun. Claudine will have one or two for the class to share, but you might like your own
-Extension cord. This is not a must, there will be some but it always helps to have some extra. So if you have room in your bag, throw one in.
-Samsonite travel iron or Clover Mini Quilter’s iron other small iron with no holes in the bottom. This is optional.
(207) 799 5154 | info@artascope.com
