First time painter

Alan is a friend of my youngest daughter and he is visiting San Miguel for 10 days. He tried his hand in encaustic painting, even though he never has painted anything in his life. I decided to dedicate his private class to the basics, creating a smooth surface and transfer. We were both most pleased with the results of a days work.

 Carol from Knoxville took a private class for 2 days. Although she is an accomplished painter in acrylics, she had never touched encaustic before. I love doing the one-on-one teaching. We can cover so much ground. We had a great time, and I feel I made a new friend.

Adriana came back after 2 years to work with encaustic again.

Adriana brought her daughter to her private class

My youngest student - 14 years old

Now she is hooked on encaustic and wants more lessons

I held a semi-private introductory workshop last week. Deborah was an enthusiastic participant. Lilliana didn't want her photo taken. That was the first time any of my students refused - and I have had over 300 people in my classes.

I am going to take a break from teaching for a while to concentrate on my own work and create a book on painting figures in encaustic. I will offer private classes to artists who have some experience in encaustic and want to learn advanced techniques.

 Another private class today. Liz from Vancouver Island already had worked in encaustic and wanted to experience figurative painting, incising and working with the hot pen.We accomplished it all .I enjoy working one on one so we can specialize on specific techniques.

Catherine

Ezshwan and Jane

Roger

 Catherine came back to San Miguel just for the encaustic clasess.

Roger

Jane

I feel that I teach encasutic differently than most other teachers of this technique. I share the technicalities and then encourage everyone to make this exciting medium their own. Although I have hundreds of examples of my encaustic paintings in my home/studio/ gallery, everyone leaves my workshops with their own art. I work side by side to guide them to accomplish their artistic visions in their own voices.

Jane

Catherine wins the award for the person who has taken the most classes with me.

71st encaustic workshop

Mónica

 It is hard to believe that this class was the first time anyone attending ever tried encaustic. There were some truly professional results.

Gaby

Elaine

Lauren

Bertha

Elaine

Mónica

Lauren

We just finished two days of fun and creativity. It was a great group and varied creativity.