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Handheld Magic!: Beeswax and Water-Soluble Crayons +More Taught by Tara Tieso
October 22, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Multi-Session Class
Meets 3 Sundays, October 22, 29 and November 5 from 10am-12pmIN PERSON CLASS
Crayons were likely your first art supply. With them you depicted your visual world – and plenty of other worlds! You scribbled, drew lots of portraits of yourself and others, colored, experimented, and in the process broke a whole lot of crayons.
The truth is, crayons are not just for kids, or an emergency art supply of last resort! Crayons still have a lot to offer us as creative people, and now they they come not just in all those amazing colors you loved in the Big Box, they’re made from many different materials – including beeswax, graphite and water soluble media!
Using a variety of different crayon types, together we’ll explore the possibilities – rather than the limitations – of this media, including drawing techniques, color, contrast, texture, pointillism, saturation, blending, layering, and tones.
Discover the fun in this versatile and expansive media, and bring a little of that old creative freedom back to your sketchbook!
Materials –
Medium to large sketchbook that is not spiral bound
Any crayons you have at home – yes, bring your old Crayola’s!
Wax paper sheets or tracing paper cut to fit your sketchbook page size
Water brushes or your favorite small set of brushes
A permanent black drawing pen in .05
We will try a variety of the following media in class, and you will likely fall in love with something! But if you already own any of these, bring them along! Beeswax crayons, Stabilo Woody (my FAVORITE!), other artist crayons, Neocolor II (individual sticks or sets), water-soluble graphite, or tinted charcoal!
About the artist:
Tara L Tieso is an abstract artist who lives and paints in the historic arts Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul, on the mighty Mississippi. She works in encaustic, an ancient beeswax and resin medium fused to its substrate with a torch. Tara also works in pen and ink, and loves water soluble colors of any type.
Tara is Past Board President of nationally celebrated WARM, Women’s Art Resources Minnesota – where she worked with other women in the arts to steward the rich 40-year feminist legacy of Minnesota’s brilliant women artists. She currently serves on the Board of The Show Non-Profit, which brings artists of all abilities together in creative community.
As teaching artist, Tara facilitates Eagan Artist Connect, Wet Paint’s Book Club, and Creative Circles from her loft studio.
A grateful recipient of the McKnight Foundation-funded Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Grant, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant; she is one of 30 ArtSage Minnesota Artists, and a winner of North Hennepin Community College Award of Excellence in Memory of Lance Kiland from the Minnesota State Fair Foundation. Her work hangs in private collections in the Twin Cities, greater Minnesota, and Philadelphia.
