Instructor: Kelly McGrath
Wednesday - Thursday
June 9 - 10
10am - 4pm
2 sessions on campus

This class focuses on techniques that are perfect for artists interested in using graphic elements, original drawings, and a mixed media approach with encaustic. This class offers insight into transfers onto the encaustic surface that are easy to do and retain a crisp graphic appearance. Students will work with found imagery as well as incorporate original drawings. Additional transfer methods will use pigment stick, pastel and graphite. Collage is the next set of skills we expand on. Students become familiar with appropriate types of paper for collaging in wax and how to use collage as an alternative to transfers. Last but not least we look at the possibilities that stenciling and inlays offer for line control and crisp edges. Students will understand successful stencil materials to use with wax and will make originals in class. Ample work time will accompany demonstrations, we will also look at contemporary uses of the above methods. All experience levels are welcome.

Kelly has been working with encaustic for over 10 years as a painting and sculpting material. She developed her approaches and techniques while working full time at R&F Handmade paints as a production assistant, Workshop coordinator and instructor. She has been invited to teach at such organizations as Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Women’s Studio Workshop, Loomis Chaffe School, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peters Valley and Snow Farm. Kelly earned her BFA in Sculpture from SUNY New Paltz in 2007, and Masters in Art Education from CUNY Hunter in 2019. She is currently the technician for the Sculpture Department at SUNY New Paltz.