Instructor: Carol Pelletier
Monday - Wednesday
June 7 - 9
10am - 12pm (EST)
3 sessions on Zoom

This workshop begins with making cold wax and manipulating its viscosity for the purpose of developing veils of color and light. We will push the boundaries of the cold wax medium through additive and subtractive techniques, utilizing a variety of tools. There will be a significant focus on color theory and the understanding of opaque vs transparent and semi-transparent oil paint and how these properties shift the way the wax medium is used.  Other topics include; basic preparations of varying surfaces, embedding or adding powdered pigment, and safe studio practices when working with cold wax medium and oil based paint.   

 Carol Pelletier is the Chair of Fine Arts and Professor of Art at Endicott College. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group shows, including the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Boecker Contemporary, Centre d'Art Contemporain, the Acadian Museum in Moncton, Saint-Mary's University in Nova Scotia, the Cynthia Winings Gallery, Julie Heller East, the Attleboro Art Museum, the Huntington Museum of Art, Oglebay Institute, and Soren Christensen to name a few. She has received three National Endowment for the Arts Grants, including a Fellowship grant from the NEA. She has also received a Mellon Foundation grant and is a Salzburg Fellow. Her work has been in multiple catalog exhibitions and publications including Art New England, New American Paintings Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, Creative Quarterly, Bloom Literary Journal in Los Angeles, and Artscope: New England's Culture Magazine. She is represented by the Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill, Maine. Carol has taught multiple workshops on painting and cold wax methods with institutions such as the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Snow Farm The New England Craft School and the Peabody Essex Museum.  Carol has also worked on multiple freelance curatorial projects, including the recent 2018 curatorial project, titled “Organic to Geometric Investigations in Structure and Surface” a 24 person exhibition emphasizing the use of encaustic and wax medium in contemporary painting and sculpture, at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum.