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Reporting from the Third Annual Encaustic Painting Conference – Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility (Part 3)

kbean — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:32:08 +0000

Hey there, busy bees!

Welcome to Part III of my report on the great workshop given by Daniella Woolf at the Third Annual Encaustic Painting Conference, Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility. (In case you missed it, catch up on Part I and Part II.) In Part III, we will see textile artists who could use a “medium makeover,” meaning their work/style would suit encaustic well.

Kyoung Ae Cho is a fiber artist who often burns markings into her work. Blowtorch, anyone?

Aura I, Corn leaf, silk organza, thread

Penny Young is a sculptor and installation artist. Can’t you imagine this impressive piece held together with wax?

Clerical Vortex

Clerical Vortex, detail

Next up is Will Marino. Here is a piece from his “paper series.”

Ice Flow, cut paper

Lastly, let’s look at Lisa Kokin’s sewn photographs.

Best Wishes, sewn found photographs, batting, paper

I know I have my own personal wish-list of etsy artists I would love to see use wax in their work. Who do you think should become an encaustic convert?

(As always, click here for Daniella’s online version of the talk.)

Reporting from the Third Annual Encaustic Painting Conference – Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility (Part 1)

kbean — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:59:52 +0000

While at the Third Annual Encaustic Painting Conference this June, I attended many great talks and demos. One of my favorites was a talk given by Daniella Woolf, Encaustic with a Textile Sensibility. She described a “textile sensibility” as anything that references cloth, so the piece does not have contain cloth, only reference it, to qualify.

This workshop was a wonderful overload of visual stimulation and inspiration (we were shown the work of 40+ artists), so I have decided to do this post in parts. For Part 1, I want to share a few artists who incorporate actual textiles into their work in some way (click on artist’s name for images on individual website).

Daniella Woolf incorporates textiles into encaustic by sewing objects together and coating or embedding them with the wax medium. A piece I find particularly stunning is Beauty at My Feet, which features eucalyptus leaves sewn together.

Cari Hernandez mixes encaustic with silk in this beautiful piece, Four Channel.

Lorrie Fredette combines encaustic, sculpture and textiles in this installation called A Pattern of Connections.

In Part 2, I’ll share artists from Daniella’s talk whose encaustic works allude to textiles. Click here for Daniella’s online version of the talk.

Have you tried including fabrics in your encaustic works? Any other artists who do this that you’d like to share?

Week of April 6

newbyart — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:32:14 +0000

The Littlest Bird Sings the Prettiest Song by FrostCollections

Announcements:

1) An email survey has been sent out to get a feel for when/ where/ and how we should conduct our next team meeting. When you get a second, please respond to the email survey. And if you didn’t get it, let us know!

2) Shannon Newby (the team’s co-leader) will be doing an interview on Blockhead Radio about the BEE team. This will be a time to shamelessly promote the team and have team members call in or write in their questions and comments. More details to come soon!

3) Our Etsy-forum: you can find this week’s thread here.

4) Want some free encaustic wax? Check out this week’s special offer here!

Opportunities:

1) Remember our February sale? Beekeeper Jay Heininger of Save the Bees was quite impressed with the caliber and number of products we put up for sale to help his cause. He has extended an invitation to any BEE team members wanting to continue collaboration with him. Partnering opportunities are available. If you’d like to partner with Jay and continue giving towards Bee research, please let me know asap.

2) Haven’t had a reason to join Twitter yet? Well – now you have one! You can tag yourself under 3 tags so that other people can find you and follow your “tweets.” Want to take your business one step further? Promote yourself through exclusive Twitter coupons, or even join the Twitter Encaustic Gallery and begin networking with other encaustic artists! And be sure to follow BEE team news and updates here!

Week of March 23

newbyart — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:43:53 +0000

Voice by Kbean

Announcements:

1) New BEE team co-leader:   As you may know, our team is growing! In order to accommodate for the growing needs of our team, Kathryn Dart (or “Kbean“) has decided to join as a co-leader!! She’ll be in charge of taking care of new members, the forum and helping to brainstorm ways of making the team better. Check out her work and be sure to say a big THANK YOU for all the time she’s volunteering to help our team remain pure AWESOMENESS!

2) The Encaustic forum: We have had many people sign up to contribute to the forum on our site! If you’ve signed up and received a confirmation email, you may begin contributing. We suggest checking it 1-2 times a week, and by all means – post as many questions, comments or blurbs about your process, your art, supplies, etc as you want! The forum will only be as good as we make it – so go for it! To sign in, or to sign up (if you do not have a username and password yet), go to the forum page of our site.

Our Etsy-forum: you can find this week’s thread here.

3) The Buzz: We have had a positive respond to Feb’s podcasts. We’re new at making podcasts, but since we are a global team, have found them to be a fun way to connect with members all over the world! We are now planning our schedule for the upcoming months. We’d like the podcast series to be called THE BUZZ, and work in conjunction with a small written overview and some images on our team site. Our goal is to highlight one member every two weeks, purely to show off what our members are up to and to hopefully bring in more sales! If you have any ideas for topics, questions, etc that you’d like to hear discussed during the podcasts, please email Shannon at writeshans [at] gmail [dot] com.

4) Team Meeting:   It’s been awhile since we’ve had our last team meeting. Since we are a global team, we’d like as much input from members all over as possible. Therefore, a survey (via email) will be helpful in finding out what time is most conducive to a well-attended meeting. COMING SOON to your email inbox!