Instructor: Lia Rothstein
Tuesday - Wednesday
May 31 - June 1
9:30am - 12:00PM (EST)
2 sessions on Zoom
With additional time in afternoon

In this two-day online workshop you’ll work with encaustic and cold wax painting and how, in combining the two materials, unique textures and effects can be achieved. The advantages of combining the materials and safe practices and limitations will be explored in-depth. We’ll use the strengths of each material to show how their use together creates new and exciting opportunities for artists. Participants will work on cradled panels with encaustic monotypes, encaustic paintings, and/or on their own photographs mounted on panels. Encaustic and cold wax paints will be used to enhance and extend the meaning of the work. Instructions for mounting work, if necessary, prior to the workshop will be provided by the instructor. This workshop is designed for those with some prior encaustic experience but no experience with cold wax is necessary. 

 Lia Rothstein has BA and MFA degrees from Boston University. She has been a professional photographer for over 40 years, has taught digital photography and imaging in colleges and art centers throughout New England, and has also worked as a photographic specialist for Dartmouth College. Lia was awarded artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Baer Art Center in Hofsos, Iceland. From 2009 through August 2012 Rothstein directed the award-winning PHOTOSTOP Gallery in White River Junction, VT. She has exhibited her photographic and mixed media work in galleries and museums across the US and her work is in numerous private and public collections, including the Polaroid Permanent International Exhibition Photography Collection, and the collections of John Hancock and the Radisson Group. Rothstein’s encaustic and cold wax paintings are featured in the book, “Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts and Conversations” by Rebecca Crowell and Jerry McLaughlin, now in its second edition. She has been teaching in-person and online workshops in cold wax painting and mixed media in New England and at Zijdelings in The Netherlands.