Painting with Fire 23/24! ...in the comfort of your home

An Encaustic Masterclass-- all new classes offered year-long online, and featuring 26 of the world’s best Encaustic and Mixed Media teachers, including friend and artist, Lyn Belisle; twelve of whom are new to the program.

A recent survey by McKinsey and Company confirms that the recent health crisis of Covid-19 brought what felt like instantaneous change in the way we do business, and how we seek out and consume information. And it is estimated that the sharing of digitally enabled products has accelerated by an average of seven years. Rates of individuals adapting towards a rapid shift in interaction through digital channels is actually light years ahead of where the experts anticipated us to be post-pandemic.

Presented as an online, series of classes, Painting with Fire 2023 is organized by Essence of Mulranny, where nature, culture and creativity meet. These world-renowned Encaustic artists will share their knowledge and expertise in all aspects of this wonderful medium. You will get a peek into their practices, and see what is behind the scenes, and all that inspires them. Classes begin April 26, 2023; 50 hours of instruction for $289, register now for Early Bird rates. Learn more about the instructors, their class offerings, and the Creatives who inhabit Mulranny at www.essenceofmulranny.

com. Taken from the Greek word, enkaustikos, meaning “to burn in”, Encaustic painting is one of the world’s oldest art forms. The artists of Ancient Greece used wax paint to highlight features of marble statues at the Acropolis, murals, and sometimes to adorn architectural features. It was not long before Egyptians incorporated encaustic paint into paintings and the mummification process. The most well-known portraits of the period were the Faiyum Mummy Portraits. Inevitably, Encaustic painting spread to Rome where it was used in Roman portraits and mythology paintings done on panels. Encaustic paintings, beautifully preserved, were discovered at Herculaneum and Pompeii.

By mid- 19th century, Encaustic painting techniques had spread throughout Europe and in the 1950s and 1960s, Jasper Johns received lots of attention with his Flag series of Encaustic paintings. Today Encaustic is an extremely versatile medium that you can paint, print, collage and sculpt.