Waxing Impressions

08/17/2023

My fundraiser for my Italy Art and Cultural Center is live on Kickstarter!
I would love your support by sharing my Kickstarter with your friends and family. My plan is to leave the Cultural Center in Italy to women artists to continue when I am gone.

I'm creating an Art and Cultural Center, B&B, in Umbria, Italy. It will be gifted to Women Artists in Italy, after my demise.

05/20/2023

I have a new website for Italy --> Italy Art Workshops AND
Cultural Center Celebrating Women Artists!
This is why I am moving to Italy late this summer, and to help make this happen, I am hosting a Kickstarter fundraising campaign beginning towards the end of June - more details coming soon!
I will be asking for your help to spread the news once the campaign begins - thank you for your support!
https://www.italyartworkshops.com/

03/16/2023

Lovely use of collage! Very dramatic! Done in the Saturday class in late January.

03/15/2023

What a great Saturday class it was with all of you and Ellen who had to leave early! Thank you all for taking the class.😀

03/11/2023

Cultivate your Creativity this spring and take an art class!
Sign up for my Beeswax Encaustic Collage Painting class and have fun making art!
You'll have fun exploring creative possibilities as you learn how to create, paint and collage with beeswax!
No experience required, beginners and experienced artists are all welcome! 🙂
Here's what a past student has said: "This is some of the most fun I’ve had playing, learning and creating in a long time! 😀" -Reese
https://waxingimpressions.blogspot.com/2023/03/beeswax-encaustic-classes.html

Mid Winter Beeswax Encaustic Class Schedule with Deborah Stachowic Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps - February 17, 2023   Banish your Winter doldrums by doing something fun & creative! Deborah Stachowic's   Beeswax Encaustic classes are fun for both beginners (even those who d...

03/10/2023

This Saturday, March 11th 6pm-9pm!
I'll be at my Studio for The Vernal Equinox Open Studios and You're invited! :) I'll have cheese, crackers and wine, my watercolor paintings will be 15% off (with a couple of exceptions) and of course I'll have my beeswax encaustic painting (minis too!) available for sale. Plus, tour other artists studios, see their artwork and have a fun evening!
More info via this link - https://mailchi.mp/b7db3eeb3b8c/vernal-equinox-half-day-half-night-half-dark-half-light?

Come celebrate our entrance into Spring, this weekend!

🌗VERNAL EQUINOX🌗
EQUINOX March Open House

🔥Saturday, MARCH 11🔥

6-9pm : Artist Open Studios
Warm Bonfires + Shenanigans Aplenty

6555 5th Ave South
Seattle WA 98108
Over in West Georgetown (near Michigan Street & 5th Ave S.)
See Art ~ Buy Art ~ Make Art
Support local artists!



Promo pic by Tim Aguero

03/10/2023

Beautiful beeswax encaustic collage painting by another student from a Fall Saturday, one-day class! :) Lovely rich color, and nice sense of movement enticing your eyes to to discover all the interesting textures from both the embedded materials in the wax as well as the luscious beeswax itself!
My beeswax encaustic classes are a lot of fun - watch for details coming soon for more classes!

03/09/2023

Another wonderful beeswax encaustic collaged painting created by one of my Fall Saturday students! Several natural elements (seashells + more) have been used to make this lovely piece, that's part of the cool thing about beeswax encaustic, you can incorporate so many different kinds of things!
This blog post has a list of collaging material ideas that can be used, and of course there are many more things that can be used. :) https://waxingimpressions.blogspot.com/2022/07/what-is-beeswax-encaustic-and-what-are.html
There are going to be some Spring Beeswax Encaustic Classes starting up soon, please watch for the post! :)

02/23/2023

One of my 5x7 beeswax encaustic painting demo boards showing some blow torch effects. Creating art sometimes is about happy little accidents that happen when doing some creative play or demonstrations! :)
Come and play at one of my classes! Find out more by clicking on the link:
https://waxingimpressions.blogspot.com/2023/02/mid-winter-beeswax-encaustic-class.html

02/22/2023

3, 5x7 demo beeswax encaustic boards showing different techniques creating with the beeswax. I use these boards to demonstrate to the students in my classes how to paint with the hot beeswax encaustic. Here's something you may not know, I make the beeswax encaustic paints my self! The paints are a blend of beeswax, damar crystal (resin [dried sap] from a particular shrub) plus powdered pigments.

02/21/2023

Another student artwork created at one of my Saturday 1-Day Beeswax Encaustic classes last Fall. She brought fabric notions to use in her collaged paintings like the "yarn" in this piece. Wonderfully subtle range of color and texture in her choices and application of the beeswax and I love how she designed it with the ends of the yarn dangling past the lower edge allowing for movement.
Wonder what you might create? Come to one of my upcoming Saturday classes and create some unique art pieces of your own! Please click on the link to find out more:
https://waxingimpressions.blogspot.com/2023/02/mid-winter-beeswax-encaustic-class.html

02/21/2023

These are some of the tools we use in my Beeswax Encaustic classes.
* The hot palette - used to melt the beeswax encaustic "paints" and keep them melted while painting with them. In the photo they have cooled and are waiting to be heated up again for the next class.
* A heat gun on the far right - looks like a blow dryer but runs MUCH hotter! It's used to heat the surface of the painting before painting each layer of melted wax and objects to fuse the layers together.
* Blow torch - used with shellac colors to cause the shellac to melt getting marvelous effects!
* Natural bristle brushes, synthetic ones would melt.
* Hand tools for carving, scraping and mark making the encaustic surface.
* Hot stylus, also for making different marks in the beeswax encaustic.
Not shown are different papers, ribbons, collaging materials used.
Here is the link my blog with an article that talks about some of the tools, collaging materials and more if you are curious to learn more! 🙂
https://waxingimpressions.blogspot.com/2022/07/what-is-beeswax-encaustic-and-what-are.html