ENCAUSTIC WORKSHOPS & COURSES

NEW

ONLINE ENCAUSTIC COURSE

Sketch to Series: Shaping Your Work With Alaina Enslen

A live studio course for artists ready to shape a cohesive body of work from sketchbook to large-scale pieces.

Enrollment For Sketch to Series Is Open Till February 26th, 2026.

Class officially begins March 3rd.

Included in the Workshop is a 60 page Ebook,

Sketch To Series: Shaping Your Style

Mark-Making & Sketch Prompts
Guided exercises to help you identify recurring gestures, shapes, movements, and motifs in your sketchbook.

Seeing What’s Already There
Tools for noticing patterns, themes, and instincts that often go overlooked—but hold the key to your style.

Iteration Practices
Simple, repeatable methods for pushing a single idea through variation, scale, and material exploration.

Sketchbook as Studio
Ways to use your sketchbook not as a warm-up space, but as a site for real decision-making and discovery.

From Sketch to Material
Prompts that help you translate drawings into surface, process, and form—whether you work in paint, cloth, wax, or mixed media.

Shaping a Series
Frameworks for editing, refining, and connecting works so they begin to speak to each other as a collection.

This workbook is designed to be lived with—written in, revisited, and returned to—supporting a more intuitive, sustainable studio practice.

Whether you’re feeling scattered, stuck, or ready to move toward a new body of work, Sketch to Series offers a grounded path forward—one page, one mark at a time.


Online Classes

Wax and Blooms: Botanicals in Encaustic

WSA, WOODSTOCK, NY - April 25th & April 26th

Exploration in Encaustic: Layering Image, Texture & Story

GARRISON ART CENTER, GARRISON, NY- May 31st

BOTANICAL & ENCAUSTIC CONCERTINA BOOK

ONLINE INSTANT ACCESS

Woven Mixed Media Workshop: Exploring Fibers & Books

Gallery 40 , Poughkeepsie, NY- April 19th

BLOOM & WAX

ONLINE INSTANT ACCESS

CLOTH & WAX: TEXTILES IN ENCAUSTIC

ONLINE INSTANT ACCESS


PAINTING WITH FIRE 2025-2026

ONLINE COURSE: ESSENCE OF MULRANNY

In-Person Classes

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