Learn how to create amazing floral or abstract designs in this comprehensive three day encaustic course, see your designs flow with ink on encaustic, see shellac create amazing effects and let your creativity surprise you
Jean Davis has 20 years experience working and teaching encaustics
Come & join us and learn how to work with hot wax, heat, filter and apply, fuse, manipulate, make textures and use shellac for many different techniques and applications and how to create special effects.
See amazing effects, the shellac opens and expands when heated on wax
Encaustic is a mixture of beeswax and damar resin, when heated together and melted onto a board makes an awesome surface to work from with effects that cannot be achieved by other mediums
No pevious experience necessary
Learn how to make your own coloured wax & oil bars from pigments
Gold
shellac
Encaustic art has a rich heritage, the technique is thousands of years old. There are also 600 surviving encaustic works from 100-300A.D. in Egypt, a testament to encaustic art's beauty and durability over the ages, learning it will open up a whole new scope and take you to endless possibilities of new and exciting art.
Building your foundation for knowledge to create effects that cannot be achieved by other mediums.
Come & join us, meet other artists, create and get inspired.
The workshop
We run a one day course in Silves in the Algarve and keep with small groups to enable everyone to get the very best attention
See next dates available
Now taking bookings for:
1 day course 10.00am-5pm / €100.00
Course materials & lunch included
10 November ‘25
12 November ‘25
24 November ’25
26 November ‘25
contact:
jdencausticartist@gmail.com
Tel: Jean (00351) 916 771 496
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