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Encaustic Circle Newsletter - September 2009
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Greetings!
 well, it's definitely the end of summer... It's raining a bit here in the usually sunny Okanagan and the weather is perfect for painting with hot wax! Which is what I will do after finishing this newsletter. Exciting things have happened in the past few weeks: my trip to the Yukon, Anna-Maria Aigner's workshop, an invitation to showcase Encaustic at our brand-new local Arts Festival, just to name a few. And preparations for my 5th. Encaustic anniversary party are well underway. As an added bonus to the fun Liz Lupton, Ron Wall and Rosewitha Masson from Fiddle Frazzle will be performing.
Thanks so much for all
of your positive reactions! I have gathered 4 pages full of encouraging
messages from all over the world and already more than 30 people have
said they would attend! Please feel free to come on the spur of the moment: drop-ins are very welcome, even if we may run out of cookies...;-)
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Encaustic "On the Road"
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Beginning of August my husband and I traveled to Whitehorse in the Yukon, where I taught for 2 days. What a fun bunch of ladies! Some even came for both days, although the courses were supposed to be the same. But they never are, of course, so I think they learned something new anyway! If you'd like me to teach in your area, please get in touch, or come to one of the workshops here in the Okanagan. See the course schedule on my website. |
"New Ways in Encaustic" with Anna-Maria Aigner
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 Participants from literally all over Canada (from Vancouver, B.C. to Halifax, Nova Scotia) came to Okanagan Falls to attend "New Ways in Encaustic."
And the Okanagan showed itself from its best side during this 3-day workshop with Anna-Maria Aigner from Germany. The weather was warm and sunny and we had a great view of the lake from the Kenyon House windows.
Not that we had much time to relax in the sun....Anna-Maria had prepared an exciting program for us; with many examples of her work lining the room her teachings were a great inspiration to all.
She showed the 12 participants painting on canvas, on painting card and watercolour paper, using embedding, incising, rubbing with oil pastels, printing on fabric, assemblage, mono printing, frottage, working with stencils and molding paste, image transfer...
Ann from Halifax wrote:
It was worth every one of the 3500
kilometres of cross country travel to learn so
much from Anna Maria, yourself and
the whole group. Thank you to all.
Among my favourite projects were the
landscape on canvas (skyline). I can't
convince people that I actually did
that!
Perhaps the most important value I
came away with was a new freedom to
Experiment; to let it flow from
within and to have fun with encaustic painting.
Now, don't you wish you could have been there too...?? Frottage on tree bark |
Workshop & Circle schedule 2010
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The new course schedule is up on the website! I know from experience that it will be susceptible to changes, as requests for outside workshops trickle in, but at least it's a framework...
The ever-popular Hotplate workshop, which usually takes place in April, moved to September and I've tried to add some new topics.
I'd love to feature another outside teacher like Anna-Maria again, perhaps in August.
Please get in touch if you would like to teach in our beautiful Okanagan. We will welcome you with open arms...just ask Anna-Maria!
For those of you who are in or close to Penticton: on Monday afternoon, Sept. 21, Jerrlee from "Mat & Mitre" will talk about framing options for Encaustic at Leir House.
She will bring some mats and frames for sale. Start: 1:30 PM.
There is no fee to attend, but please let me know you are coming.
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Featured Guest Artist: Susanne
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 For this section I'd like to highlight one of you each month. Please email me your favourite Encaustic painting. If possible with a short story. This month's painting, "Winter Scene", is by Susanne Dannenberg. She uses milkpaints (made out of 100% natural earth and plant pigments) to colour her waxes as a way to avoid powdered or alkyd-suspended toxin pigments. She lives in Victoria, B.C. and teaches classes in mixed media and encaustic. Go to Susanne's website
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Sale on heated stylus with UK plug
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The heated stylus is temporarily out of stock, but I do have some styluses with a UK plug.
They are $29.95, compared to $42.95 for the regular one.
You can use these with a F160 Samsonite traveler plug (not included) or you can outfit it with your own plug (warranty voided).
I'm not sure when I will get the other ones in again, but am working on it.
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If you have been following our little saga of putting up a pool in the garden: here is the sad end of it for this year:
The pump has been disassembled and the water is draining into our parched garden! Soon it will be only a big piece of plastic again.
Time to wax the cross-country skis!!
Happy Painting,
Thea Haubrich
TwinLakes EncausticArt
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