Cold Wax Painting
Instructor: Michael A. Giaquinto
Thursday, September 25
9am - 12pm
1 session

Students will create a unique piece of art in this workshop with Michael Giaquinto that will bring together a variety of mixed media techniques while exploring the fascinating and versatile cold wax medium. This workshop is designed not only to enhance the participants' artistic skills but also to encourage their creativity and self-expression through the use of this innovative medium. Cold wax medium is a specialized mixture that typically combines beeswax with a variety of other ingredients, including solvents and oils, to achieve a workable consistency. This unique blend allows artists to manipulate the medium in ways that traditional painting methods do not permit. One of the most exciting aspects of cold wax is its ability to create highly textured art pieces by layering oil paint.

Materials list:

• Oil paint: variety of colors: small tubes.

• Gamblin Cold Wax Medium, 4oz.

• Mixed media paper pad: 11” x 14"

• Variety sizes of paint knives

• Paper plates, used as a palette

• Paper towels

• Disposable Nitrile Gloves

Michael A. Giaquinto, former Exhibitions Curator at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, studied art at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA. and art history at North Carolina State University. He was awarded “Craftsman of the Year '' by the Early American Life Magazine in 2001 and 2005, the VISI Award, from Cape Cod & Islands Art Educators Association in 2017, and and served as guest speaker or the Guild of Harwich Artists, 2017. His work has been exhibited with Berta Walker Gallery; Chabot Fine Art Gallery, and Miller White Fine Arts. He has held workshops at the Creative Arts Center; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Weny Education Center at CCMOA; and the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, He is featured in Deborah Forman’s book, Contemporary Cape Cod Artists on Abstraction, 2015.