ENCAUSTIC WORKSHOPS & COURSES

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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.

    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.


    In-Person 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

    Woven Mixed Media Workshop: Exploring Fibers & Books

    Gallery 40 , Poughkeepsie, NY- April 19th

    Online Classes

    BOTANICAL & ENCAUSTIC CONCERTINA BOOK

    ONLINE INSTANT ACCESS

    BLOOM & WAX

    ONLINE INSTANT ACCESS

    CLOTH & WAX: TEXTILES IN ENCAUSTIC

    ONLINE INSTANT ACCESS

    PAINTING WITH FIRE 2025-2026

    ONLINE COURSE: ESSENCE OF MULRANNY

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