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J & M Enterprises Newsletter Fun Easy Art September 2010
Back to school time and wax classes as well.
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John
Dear Encaustic Painter,

I am still having fun taking classes and this time I am doing a series called Spring Forest Qigong and all these class experiences show up in my wax painting experience. I have been spending most of my painting time on the large A2 size stock and working with a large griddle.   Check below for my new class schedule. I will be doing one a month for the next 4 month and then I will be off to the sun.

Here are the results of this cycle.  I call this one Koi.
                 Divine Double

                 East Coast
             An abstract with hints of the garden.

                 doubles
Here is a collage idea that was fun to put together.
            Lilly Pond
                
     And a lily pond concept I took from an image I saw.

                   garden bouquet
    A bouquet of flowers was done over a background that was wiped off and started over. Another similar theme below.

                  new growth

      This one below I called hope returning.

                 Hope Returning
Another intense abstract with some Kleenex dabbing.

                 blue lines

This one has one ply of Kleenex in the wax and then more wax on top.

                 Golden Garden


                 Southwest

                 trees 4

A murder of crows to begin to close it off for the month. Most of these are 17 x 24 inches in size so it was a busy month of painting...

                crows

        And One last one called,
                      Saturday Flower Market Booth.

    

 Get out those irons and melt some wax.  
Supplies
You can find all the supplies for this process on my web site on this page.
There are three box sets of wax, Starter, Expanding and Vivid.  These are the Starter colors.

Encaustic Starter Wax Set $21.00



starter wax

If some of you want to make your own wax here is a link to get the how to do it info.
Upcoming Class Schedules

Gallery North - Art Class

508 Main Street    Edmonds, WA         425-774-0946

Beginning Encaustic Painting Class

Date(s): Sept 12th     - Oct 17th - Nov 14th     or      Dec 12th                 Time:10:00 AM - 4 PM      

 Fee: $80.00                          All Supplies Included

Min of 4 students and a Max of 10     Class Restricted to age 14 and older because of the hot tools. Payment of class fees need to be completed 3 day before class starts to make sure we have our min of 4 students.  Call Gallery North to register and pay.  September Class can be registered online at this link.
Other Web sites I show my paintings:  Red Bubble  Fine Art America

You can order reprints off either of these sites from cards to prints on canvas and watercolor paper. Framed or unframed.
Free Instruction
35 video clips to watch.

To look at the video clips I have on the web simply access them from these links.
Series 1.
Series 2.
Series 3.
Hope they help you and inspire you to give wax a try.
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Sincerely,
 
John Vandebrooke
J & M Enterprises
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