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Here it is-- your moment of zen!

By Jamie Ribisi-Braley | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 | , , , , , , 2 Comments

Intro to Encaustic Painting - Saturday June 20th, 10am - 2pm

at Sweetland Retreat: 256 Pond Rd, Manchester, ME

Learn the ancient art of encaustic painting! Encaustic is the use of beeswax and damar resin melted together and combined with dry pigments to create a unique painting medium. This paint is applied hot/molten and manipulated with a direct heat source. It makes for a lovely layered image into which objects and photographs can be added. If you've seen a Jasper Johns painting then you've seen an encaustic painting!

This class will cover a brief history of encaustic, supplies and where to buy them, setting up, basic encaustic painting including fusing, embedding objects, and creating texture, as well as cleaning up, and caring for your paintings. Participants will complete 1-2 small paintings. No painting experience necessary. Open to ages 15 and up.

$70 includes all supplies; feel free to bring along objects to incorporate (dried natural objects, paper, and photographs on plain paper work well)

Instructor: Jamie Ribisi-Braley, Manchester, ME (<-- That's me!)

Jamie is passionate about creating art and about sharing her techniques and knowledge. She loves to learn how the old masters created their supplies and how they used them. Jamie believes that once you have the foundations of a medium, you’ll know how to make it work for your voice.

Jamie is co-owner of Sweetland Retreat and received her BFA in Painting from Boston University. http://jamieribisi.com

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Artists I Admire- Adam Junior

By Jamie Ribisi-Braley | Tuesday, January 6, 2009 | , , , , 1 Comment

Studio
3.5' x 2.5' x 3'
Resin, clay bricks, tin
by Adam Junior


I've been friends with Adam for many years.  We became friends when we were both teaching art classes at The Huntington School of Fine Arts in NY.  He was (and still is) the sculpture guru- and with good reason!  His imagination is really something to admire and his enthusiasm for sculpting is contagious.  It was always a treat to eavesdrop while he was one-on-one with a student and hacking away at their clay sculptures.

The best part was watching how he applied what he was preaching to his own work.  Anyone that teaches knows that your advice to your students weighs heavily on your own work.  One sentiment from him that I remember  was to keep chasing the vision and to never let the sculpture win-- the artist is always in control.

I have the distinct honor of being Adam's webmaster which means that I have the first chance of seeing his sculptures before he releases them into the world.  This newest piece pictured above, 'Studio', really grabbed me and I keep coming back to it, zooming in, and imagine being inside this tower as it's flailing around.  I feel this turbulence in my own studio and in my head but I have to remind myself that it's on a solid foundation-- no matter how crazy it looks, it's solid and will hold me up.  I'm not sure if that's what Adam intended with this piece but that's the nice thing about art; you bring your own emotions and baggage to the trip.  And our ideas are golden as long as we enjoy the ride.

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