Introduction To Encaustic Painting
Sunday, june 28 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. $90. includes all material
Instructor: Hélène Farrar, Cerulean Collective Artist & Proprietor
In this workshop you will learn how to layer, fuse, and “make marks with encaustics. Using this melted, pigmented beeswax, you will also learn how to transfer images, add collage, and incorporate sculptural elements. Class time will be divided between demonstrations, individual work time, and discussion. This would also be suitable as a refesher course or for studio time. Encaustic Medium and Starter Kits for sale at workshop and open studio events.
Portrait Painting At Your Speed
Tuesday evenings starting June 23 6 - 8 PM
Instructor: Hélène Farrar
Cerulean Collective Artist & Proprietor
$85./ 6 weeks
Divided between working from the model and personal photographs, students will develop new ways of seeing and rendering the portrait in color as a way to reveal physical characteristics, as well as the spirit, and emotional / psychological depth of that individual. Students will also be given specific instruction to color mixing, rendering light source, and technique specific to their chosen medium. This class is appropriate for students with drawing experience. Painting media may include watercolor, acrylic, oil, and pastels. Materials list supplied beforehand and conversation encouraged before the start of the class on individual direction.
TO REGISTER:
Call Cerulean Fine Art Gallery at 626-9009 or email info@ceruleanart.com
Or stop by! We are located at 202 Water Street Hallowell (Directly across from Slates)
More About the Instructor:
Hélène Farrar creates traditional and non-traditional oil paintings, encaustic and mixed media paintings, artist’s books, poetry, short stories, ceramic sculpture, drawings, prints, and digital work. She writes, "My painting process is centered on the act of play. Combining both intentional and intuitive processes, I create works that are bold in composition and expressive in markmaking and color. I am interested in surfaces that that speak of rigorous activity through variations in manipulated, and layered textures. Through this practice, I allow the images to “come through” while locating personal meaning in this meditative act. " Hélène has a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from the University of Maine. She has had extensive teaching of the visual arts from formal classrooms to community-based art experiences. She has had previous studios in Portland with Running With Scissors and in Gardiner with Artdogs. Hélène is currently a working, professional artist who is co-owner of Cerulean Fine Art Gallery and Artist Studios of Hallowell, Maine. She is an adjunct professor of art at the University of Maine at Augusta where she teaches drawing and design. Hélène is also on the faculty at Thomas College where she teaches Graphic Design courses. The Three Graces Gallery of Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Cerulean Fine Art Gallery of Hallowell currently represent her work. She is also an active member of New England Wax and was recently juried into a prestigious show for wax artists this summer at the Duxbury Art Museum in Massachussetts. She exhibits extensively in New England and beyond.
