HOT ART: Basic Encaustic Techniques
Adult Course | Registration opens 11/4/2025 10:00 AM MDT
This two-day workshop is designed to give participants an overview of the encaustic process and allow hands-on art making experience with various tools and techniques. We will briefly discuss history, safety, materials and equipment. The instructor will demo techniques, and the class will participate in, making our own encaustic medium and paint, applying and fusing the medium, glazing, mark making, adding texture, additive and subtractive techniques, stencils etc. Participants will learn multiple image transfer techniques, and explore the use of additional art materials that work well with encaustic; foils, tissue, graphite, pan pastels etc All tools and some materials will be provided. Participants will take home finished art!
Victoria Eubanks
Victoria Eubanks is a visual artist and educator. She brings 30 years of graphic design sensibility, 15 years of fine art making and extraordinary talent to her classrooms and studio. Victoria mixes media—combining encaustic medium, cold wax, oil paint, printmaking or photography in a variety of ways. Her art contains intended imperfections—lopsided rounds, rough sgrafitto lines, uneven repetition, organic shapes and the occasional recognizable object. She believes the inevitable human inconsistencies connect the artist and the viewer.
Victoria’s work hangs in private and corporate art collections and has been included in over 60 exhibitions. Her practice has received multiple awards and recognition. She is a long time member of the MIX co-op, her works can been seen at Niza Knoll Gallery, Gallery 1261, and Framed Image Gallery in Denver and online at VictoriaEubanksArt.com.
Victoria is also involved with multiple community outreach programs, giving back through her art. She is passionate about teaching, her philosophy is to provide a safe space, where individuals can learn, explore and enjoy their own art making.
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