Instructor: Dietlind Vander Schaaf
Tuesday - Wednesday
June 1 - 2
10am - 4pm
2 sessions

Layers + Translucency focuses on building luminous encaustic paintings from the ground up, addressing what can be done directly onto a substrate, between layers of medium, and on the surface, as well as how to create a smooth even surface. Demonstrations will include working with tinted gesso, India ink, charcoal, Pan Pastel, R&F Drawing Oils, pencil, graphite, Blending Medium, charcoal, Deco Foil, and R&F Pigment Sticks. Students will learn about opaque and transparent colors and creating glazes.

Emphasis will be placed on controlling temperatures when applying and fusing encaustic, creating a sense of radiant light, the balance and weight of composition, and expressing meaning through an exploration of accumulating marks, drawings, and paint at varying levels. Participants should have a basic mastery of encaustic technique.

Dietlind Vander Schaaf holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco and an MA from the University of Southern Maine. Her work has been described as “the transformation of disparate objects into elegantly simple compositions of pattern and grace” (Artscope). Vander Schaaf has exhibited at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Fuller Craft Museum, and On Center Gallery, among others, and been featured in Maine Home + Design, Decor Maine, UPPERCASE, and Downeast magazines. Vander Schaaf is a Core Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints, an Ampersand Ambassador, and the former president of New England Wax. She has taught workshops throughout the country, including Haystack, Arrowmont, Castle Hill, Snow Farm, Penland, Maine College of Art, R&F, and internationally at Zijdelings in The Netherlands, Essence of Mulranny in Ireland, and Kunstfreiraum in Switzerland. The recipient of grants from the Maine Arts Commission and International Encaustic Artists, as well as a Tending Space Artist Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation, she is represented by Portland Art Gallery and Artemis Gallery. Vander Schaaf is a 500 hr Kripalu yoga instructor with specialty training in meditation, advanced asana, Ayurveda, vinyasa, and pranayama, as well as a Level 2 Archery Instructor through USA Archery.