PLASTER AND PAINT WITH JUDY WISE
Plaster is such a delicious texture to work with when you paint. It can be applied thinly, or applied with lots of texture. Judy Wise will show you how to create the texture you desire and then add luscious layers using acrylic, cold wax, or both.
After the Rain
Kathie first proposed this class to me as a class using Venetian plaster and cold wax. Because of the ease of clean up and transport, I suggested that we could do most of the same things with acrylic that we could do with cold wax. It is my own personal preference but additionally I sometimes work the underlayers in acrylic and then switch to cold wax.
Ghosts in the Copper Mine
The supplies for each approach is similar and I will demo both mediums so you can gain insight into which direction future work may take you. I will also bring samples of each.
Having said that, we will create an underlayer of Venetian plaster on which we will paint. This product is not true Venetian plaster, which is made out of limestone, ground marble dust and natural pigment, but an acrylic product which is harder and less porous than joint compound and buffs to a beautiful sheen that resembles marble. It can be stenciled, spread over acrylic paint, layered, and incised into to create textured effects. Let’s join forces and make magic together with this lovely product.
This Side Up
ITINERARY
Thursday, Sept. 16 , Arrive 1:30 We will set up our stations, go over introductions and the schedule and then plaster our boards. We will break for happy hour at 4:30 with dinner served by Kathie.
Friday, Sept. 17, Arrive 9-9:30. Class will begin at 9:30. break for lunch around noon, ending at 4:30. Dinner is on your own.
Saturday, Sept. 18, Arrive by 9:30, lunch break, return to workshop, class will end at 4:30. Dinner will be provided this evening.
Sunday, Sept. 19, Arrive 9:30, finish projects. Lunch, then show ‘n tell, clean up workspace. Class will be over around 3:30.
Ojai
Sediment
Pentimento
Nip Tide
This workshop is full and a waitlist has been started.
This Workshop Includes
3.5 days of instruction by Judy Wise
Plaster
One 12” x 12” cradled board
One 12” x 12” board
Watercolor paper
Some paint
Two dinners, three lunches prepared by Kathie
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New Art Tribe
The price for this workshop is $575 and does not include lodging or transportation.
$575 is due at registration
The workshop is limited to 10
Please Note: Proof of Vaccination is required to attend this workshop
The picturesque town of Gig Harbor is the location for this workshop. Listed as one of the most desirable cities in the US to visit (or to live), it is located just across the Narrows Bridge from Tacoma, WA on the way to the Olympic Peninsula.
Gig Harbor Picture by John Vincent Palacio
It is south of Seattle and the SEATAC airport. Transportation to Gig Harbor from the airport - Bremerton-Kitsap Airporter stops at two locations in Gig Harbor, the Inn at Gig Harbor or Purdy Park and Ride.
Accommodation: There are many Arbnbs and B&Bs in Gig Harbor. Here is a link for more options
STUDENT SUPPLY LIST
Venetian Plaster + cold wax
plaster trowel (6” size is the one I use)
silicone bowl scraper and palette knives
4” brayer
oil paints, a handful of colors you love and a big tube of white
Dorland’s or Gamblin’s cold wax medium 16 oz.
palette paper
masking tape and waxed paper for getting the work home
several sizes of paint brushes
apron
stabilo, charcoal, dark lead pencils
Venetian Plaster + acrylic
plaster trowel (6” size is the one I use)
palette knives
4” brayer
6-8 braced wood panels or ¼” birch or mahogany plywood cut into 12” squares at your lumberyard
acrylic paints, a handful of colors you love and a big tube of white plus matte medium
palette paper
waxed paper & masking tape
several sizes of paint brushes
apron
stabilo, charcoal, dark lead pencils
WE WILL PROVIDE
rags or a roll of soft paper towels
protective gloves
3 painting surfaces
odorless mineral spirits (Gamsol)
Citrasolv
mineral oil (only for clean up) + Dawn soap
Venetian plaster
kabob sticks for drawing into plaster
other mark making tools to share
stencils
oil pastels
portfolio crayons
tube crimper to share
crackle medium
Detail - Pumice
Judy Wise is an Oregon artist who has worked as a printmaker, painter, writer and teacher for four decades and has kept daily journals of her writing and art since childhood.
Judy's workshops for Bellissima Art Escapes include: Paint Oaxaca - Sept. 2014, Paint Mexico City - 2015, Paint San Miguel de Allende - 2015, Indigo Indigo - 2015, Free Spirits Amsterdam 2016, Painting Big Spain - 2016, Journal with a Circle of Friends, Catalonia, Spain - 2016. Cold wax, 2017, and in 2018, London/Northumberland.
Kathie Vezzani, who is hosting the workshop at her home in Gig Harbor, also is an artist who paints, rusts and waxes. She organizes trips for other artists and in a former life was a caterer. She has over two decades of experience organizing trips for foodies and artists.