Instructor: Kelly Milukas
Tuesday - Thursday
May 27 - 29
10am - 4pm
3 sessions

Expand your encaustic painting vocabulary whether you are working from life, semi abstractly, or conceptually abstract. We’ll talk in depth about the elements of what makes a successful composition. Look at a cityscape scene and break it down into simple shapes. Understand value and how value is used to express shape. Discover how color relates directly to values and knowledge of value. Represent other forms in the cityscape as supporting elements to the painting story. Learn how to take simple lines and shapes and use them to create a gorgeous cityscape while also exploring pattern, variety, balance and more! See examples from both contemporary and historic artists who have mastered the city.

This workshop is suitable for Advance Beginners - Very Experienced painters.

Kelly Milukas works and teaches in a variety of media, among them pastel, water-based & ink-based paints, and mixed-media-sculpture; with a particular love of creative encaustic and pastel fused together. In addition to private mentoring and instruction in her seacoast New England studio, Kelly serves as Artist Instructor for R&F Encaustics, Encaustic Instructor for the International Encaustic Conference at Truro Center for the Arts in Massachu-setts, and a Demonstration Instructor for the International Association of Pastel Societies in New Mexico, where she holds an International Pastel Masters Circle title. Kelly is a frequent national contributor in museum programming, private retreats, corporate creativity and team- building programs, and her résumé includes International Regenerative Medicine and Bio-Tech Science Residencies. Kelly also designed an annual Residency program as the Inaugural AiR with the well known interiors firm Taste Design of Rhode Island. Kelly teaches nationally and internationally in Encaustics and Mixed Media Paint. Kelly is a past President of the Providence Art Club and the Founding President (Emerita) for South Coast Artists of Rhode Island & Massachusetts. Kelly is an appointed Inaugural Mentor for the IEA, International Encaustic Association. Her story, studio, and artwork have been featured in prestigious publications such as New England Home, IAPS Globes, Sotheby’s 401, Artscope, The Pastel Journal, and Newport Life; and in books such as 100 New England Artists; Best of American Pastel, Artists’ Homes & Studios, and The Cortland Review. In addition, Kelly has held solo exhibitions at several national venues, a museum solo exhibition, and her work has featured prominently at international art fairs such as Red Dot Miami and Boston International Art Fair, as well as national museums, international private and corporate collections. Kelly Milukas straddles her favorite, rich worlds of pastel painting and encaustic by combining them in her shifting practice. Intersections between abstraction and representation define her landscapes, still life, farm life, science inspired and conceptual art.