by Debra Claffey | Jan 2, 2022 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Workshops
Join us for a five session workshop on painting and drawing with cold wax medium, R&F Pigment Sticks and oils. Painting with Cold Wax, R&F Pigment Sticks & Oils Fridays, January 28; February 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022, 2:00 – 5:00 pm $250 RAA&M Members / $275...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 22, 2021 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Workshops
Part interactive and live work time, part work-share and group crit, part Q & A and technique demonstration. We make these weekly 3-hour online.sessions what you need. Explore painting and drawing with oils, encaustic, cold wax medium, and/or R&F Blending...
by Debra Claffey | Dec 2, 2020 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Workshops
I’ve scheduled a new workshop on the Zoom platform with a slightly new format. Painting and Drawing and Everything in Between will run Fridays, beginning December 11, 2020. The three-hour class will be interactive with discussion, a demo, work time, ending with...
by Debra Claffey | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Workshops
My studio is in a small town in the exurbs of a NH city. My studio is not at all difficult to find but it’s a minimum of a half-hour drive from anywhere! So one of the positives outcomes of our current crisis know as Covid-19 is a way to bypass geography. That...
by DCadmin | Oct 25, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Workshops
Introducing Cold Wax Painting, at the New Art Center, Newton, Mass. October 26, 10am – 4pm I’ll be introducing painters to working with Cold Wax medium, working on birch panels and on Arches Oil paper. We’ll cover all the basics so that you will...
by Debra Claffey | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Events, Updates, Workshops
Just confirmed – Introducing Cold Wax Painting, at the New Art Center, Newton, Mass. October 26, 10am – 4pm Sign up here:...
by Debra Claffey | Jun 15, 2019 | Events, Updates, Workshops
SO much fun teaching today at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Educational Center. What a great group of artists!!! We introduced using cold wax medium with oils on Arches Oil...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 21, 2019 | Events, Updates, Workshops
Here are a few reasons to sign up for a day-long workshop at Castle Hill in Truro on May 30. Work with encaustic and mixed media on paper in a slightly new way. These details show the luscious textures of oil/pigment stick paint over encaustic on Rives BFK paper.You...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 12, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Workshops
This is untitled. It’s a demonstration piece, using cold wax medium and oil paint. It’s work I do in my workshops to show how versatile the cold wax medium makes your oil paints. Always with a reminder that technique should inform or transform your content...
by Debra Claffey | Jan 6, 2019 | Blog--Making Something Out of Nothing, Updates, Works-in-progress, Workshops
I taught a two-day workshop in painting with cold wax medium this weekend. It’s often easier to demonstrate possibilities than to talk about them. So this one shows layering techniques with drawing to expose the color beneath. I like the color palette, the...
