Painting with Beeswax

Discover the magic of bees and beeswax! Learn the foundational techniques of painting with beeswax, tree resin and pigments known as encaustics. Dive even deeper by exploring the world of collage through adding alternative materials such as handmade papers, photographs and found objects you will weave together with wax to create rich, vibrant and textural images.Supplies will be provided AND you are encouraged to bring personal items such as papers, yarns, threads, magazine images or photocopies of images you are inspired to work with.Wear your painting attire or bring an apron!

Organizer: Cascade Girl is a 501(c)3 that teaches people about pollinators of the Cascade region via science, art and culture. Projects include educational content about beekeeping and gardening for US veterans as well as classes for school children and adult college students.

Cascade Girl produces the annual Oregon Honey & Mead Festival and local classes such as this one to help fund their work. They have Apiaries in Ashland, Grants Pass and Central Point where bees produce honey, pollen and wax. Cascade Girl is a two time winner of the Good Food Awards in the Artisan Honey category. More at www.cascadegirl.org

Instructors: DESIREE DE MARS, has been an artist, hypnotist, shaman and integrative health practitioner for over 25 years. A former member and instructor at The Museum of Encaustic Art and The International Encaustic Artists, her passion for wax, fire and bees began as a beekeeper, many moons ago, where she lived off-grid within a sustainable artists community in northern Wisconsin, on Lake Superior. She now lives in Talent, Oregon on a small private animal rescue farm.To learn more about her work/services visit Sacred Symbols:www.desireedemars.com

SHARON SCHMIDT is President of Cascade Girl and received her Master Beekeeper credential from University of Montana. She established the Cascade Girl organization in 2014. She is a psychiatric nurse practitioner and clinical psychologist.

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