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Instructor: Debra Claffey
Tuesday - Wednesday
June 1 - 2
10am - 4pm
2 sessions on campus

Explore creating paneled work with layered pigment stick monotypes and encaustic medium and paint. Add mixed media ingredients such as carbon drawing, incising, toning with pigment stick or pan pastel. On the first day, create a series of monotypes on Asian papers with R&F pigment sticks. No press needed for these hand-pulled monotypes from both plexiglass plates or gelatin plates. On the second day, layer the prints and encaustic medium on panels with the addition of pigment stick, drawing, incising, and other encaustic techniques.

Debra Claffey is a visual artist who uses encaustic, oil, and mixed media in her work. She holds a BFA in Painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University and an Associate's Degree in Horticultural Technology from the University of New Hampshire. Claffey recently received the Juror’s Award at the 2019 Anything But Flat exhibition at the 13th International Encaustic Conference. Claffey has curated three Conference exhibitions, the most recent being The Space Between Shadow and Light at Gallery X in June 2017. She is a founding member and a Past-President of New England Wax.