The Art of Encaustic Painting (Demo and Studio Tour)

You won't want to miss this rare opportunity to visit "The Hive", Penny Pollock's  private studio.  Penny will demonstrate the ancient process of  encaustic painting, which involves melted beeswax, paint pigments and tree resin. Enjoy a little vino along with great fellowship.

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Location:  Private Studio         Limit 20

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Presenter:   Penny Pollock, an encaustic artist who chose this medium to bring  together her history of working in fashion with textiles and shapes  through the combining of materials and colors to produce clothing and  accessories for name brand lines. The elements of Encaustic art are beeswax, paint pigments, and tree resin developed by  the ancient Greeks with some surviving paintings hanging in the  Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 2500 years ago. Pollocks'  use of this ancient method of painting started as a fascination with the technique and quickly became a tool in which she could infuse antique book pages, dried botanicals and fine pieces of cloth woven into her art.