Photography & Encaustic: Use of the Sequential (and Beautifully Distressed) Image, part 1
When: March 26-28, 2010
Instructors: Michael David & Thomas Swanston
Class Size: 12
Location: Getting Around Studio, Serenbe
Cost: $475
Photography & Encaustic is an experiential three-day workshop on the theory and practice of the fusion of photographic processes with the encaustic medium. This interdisciplinary workshop covers archival techniques, methods of presentation, and basic safety, along with slide presentations, step-by-step instruction, and plenty of time to experiment, create, and critique work
Participants will learn how to integrate a photographic image with encaustic through techniques such as layering, pouring, painting, and by making the original imagery translucent. We will also demonstrate how to experiment with various methods of manipulating the original photograph—including toning, distressing, and a variety of transfer techniques. We will explore working with photo-encaustic and sequential/multiple imagery, and, as part of an exploration of the history of the relationship between painting and photography, examine the work of artists such as Joel Peter Witkin, the Starn twins, Gerhard Richter, Chuck Close, Eadweard Muybridge, and Andy Warhol.
Experimentation is the name of the game—new possibilities and processes! As always this Fine Arts Workshop presents opportunity for personal growth and intellectual enrichment.
Friday, March 26th
5:30pm - 7:30pm Introduction; Presentation on Photography, Encaustic, and Sequential/Multiple Art
Saturday, March 27th
10:00am – 11:00am Photo Transfer Demo; support instruction
11:00am - 12:00pm Studio Time
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch Time
1:00pm – 2:00pm Group Review
2:00pm – 2:30pm Distressed Image
2:30pm - 4:00pm Studio Time
4:00pm - 5:00pm Group Review
Sunday, March 28th
10:00am – 11:00am Tai Chi
11:00am – 12:00pm Surface; Line; Edge; Pouring
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 2:00pm Group Review
2:00pm – 2:30pm Collage; Oil and Wax
4:00pm – 5:00pm Group Review
Prior to the workshop please:
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1.Email up to three JPEG’s of your art work to info@fineartsworkshop.com
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2.If possible, bring to the workshop one encaustic art work currently in progress.
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3.If you have not worked with Encaustic before, feel free to bring in an example of an art work in another medium.
OPTIONAL: bring in your current studio step up for working with Encaustic. Tom and Michael would like to review your set up and process, from the burner, to the vessels, medium and wax formula you presently use. Make sure you bring your own brushes and whatever scrapping tools you work with, as well as straight edges and your work clothes.
MATERIALS LIST
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•4 to 6 photos that can be cropped or fit and 4 to 6 wooden supports that correspond..the subject matter should deal with family, memory or loss
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•2 laser jet prints...( you can get them in color at Kinkos) but we suggest black and white and two corresponding wooden supports
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•a big spoon
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•various big foam brushes
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•various paints and drawing materials
Michael David
Michael David has taught at Princeton University and the Savannah College of Art And Design, and has lectured at The School of Visual Arts in New York, The New York Studio School and The Art Institute of Chicago. His paintings have been exhibited around the world, and are included in the Permanent Public Collections, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, Houston and Denver Museums among many others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and awards from American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Albee Foundation. www.michaeldavidartist.com
Thomas Swanston
Tom Swanston has taught at the GLCA New York Arts Program and within the University of Georgia system at Kennesaw and Gordon Colleges, and lectured at The Maryland Institute College of Art. Exhibiting regularly in galleries in Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, Naples, New Orleans, and Santa Fe, he has had 14 solo and 46 group exhibitions, included in 8 museum exhibitions and published in over 55 industry and lifestyles magazines. He has been awarded two Ford Foundation grants, a Rubenstein Foundation grant, and been a Fellow at the Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences.
