Instructor: Wayne Montecalvo
Monday - Tuesday
June 3 - 4
10:00am - 4:00pm
2 Sessions
This workshop will address combining encaustic with various mediums. Incorporating acrylic paint, water color, India ink, powdered charcoal, stain block (house paint) are a few of the methods that will be demonstrated.
Processes will include working with digitally printed imagery, monotype, and silkscreen prints, as well as other suitable collage materials. In addition to working on panels, alternative substrates (FoamCoat on foam panels, as well as encaustic and shellac on glass) will also be shown. The demo will address ways to manipulate images and to push the digital print into something unique. Mark making, re-assembling, distorting, and adding hand drawn elements will also be a focus of the presentation. Combining controlled “accidental” marks using India ink and alcohol on Japanese paper will be shown as an option for layering on top of, and underneath an image.
The workshop will incorporate student images that I will print before the workshop. JPEG files must be received by May 10th.
Wayne Montecalvo received a BFA from the School of visual Arts in NYC. From 1998-2013 he worked in the Art Department at the State University of New York, New Paltz campus, and taught as an adjunct employee from 2010-2013. From 2014-2016, worked as a freelance artist from his own studio. From 2017-2022 Wayne worked as a prop builder for PRG Technologies, New Windsor, NY. Since the slow down of Broadway productions as a result of the Covid pandemic, he has spent more time teaching workshops on line from his own studio, while seeking other freelance options including teaching in other locations.
Additional related experience and teaching gigs include R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston, NY. Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA. The Printmaking Center at the College of Santa Fe, NM. Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, NY. Truro Center for the Arts at Castle hill, Cape Cod, MA. Studio Joy, Kansas City, MO. Mount Everett Regional school, Scheffield, MA. The Draw, Kingston, NY. Studio E, San de Allende, Mexico. Voice Theater (NYC), Old Dutch Church, Kingston., NY., Blackbird Theater, Rosendale, NY.
Wayne’s awards and honors include the Awagami Artist-in-Residence Program at Awagami Paper Factory in Tokushima, Japan; NYFA MARK ’09; Two Full Fellowship Awards for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Two Residencies at the Frans Masereel Zentrum voor Grafiek, Kasterlee, Belgium; John Michael Kohler Foundation Arts/Industry Artist-in-Residence, Sheboygan, WI; Women’s Studio Workshop Artists’ Fellowship, Rosendale, NY., Residency at The Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland, and an Artists At Work: New York State Council on the Arts.