Art Class #2: Encaustics

My second art class at Visual Arts Center of Richmond was Introduction to Encaustics. I took the class with my friend Andra, who has an awesome blog and gorgeous pictures of the class. The class ran for 6 weeks in November and December 2011.

Essentially, you heat up various colors of beeswax, paint the wax on wood and wait for it to harden. You can manipulate the wax by heating it up with a heat gun or utilizing paper, rubber stencils/molds and utensils, etc. Each week we would learn a few new techniques. The biggest thing for me was learning to be open minded and having no preconceived notions of what I wanted the finished product to look like.