What's my favourite creative practice to elicit creative flow? These days, my mark-making dance is getting a work-out by creating accordion artist books with Chinese inks! I just love the Paynes Grey blueish tint that emerges when this ink is thinner with water. This folded book technique is an amazing way to make large gestural movements on paper, which I then fold into an accordion book and further enhance the marks with detail and colour. Give it a try! www.sharybartlett.com

Amazing mixed media concertina books made by students in my Flow: Fluid Mixed Media Exploration class at Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts, Summer 2022. Encaustic, Ecoprinting, acrylic, watercolour, collage, ink mark making, Suminagashi, Cyanotype, rusting, marbling, Dutch pour, alcohol ink and more! Great work by the students! Check out my in-person and online classes: https://www.sharybartlett.com/workshops

A perfectly smooth Encaustic wax surface is a delight for translucent wax applications like alcohol inks, collage, mixed media, and for photographs. Learn the benefits of pouring a wood-grained cradled panel with clear encaustic medium vs. white paint. Learn various ways to apply a smooth surface using a pour, a dam, a brush or an iron in this 30 minute instructional video. Buy the Smooth course for just 40$ USD Find out more here: https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/smooth ✅ The special coupon is no long valid BUT you can still save when you bundle two or more courses! Find out more here: https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/category/bundles ✅ Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.sharybartlett.com/contact⁠ ✅Find out more at https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/flowing-light ✅https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/smooth ✅https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/luscious-lines ✅Learn more about my other courses here: https://www.sharybartlett.com/workshops

What kind of photographs, paper, and ink are best for encaustic? What creates a brilliant, viable archival image? How to create a thin perfectly smooth layer of wax over a photograph to add a dreamy mood and still maintain the clarity? Learn the many ways to create a smooth beeswax surface for photos: brushing: pouring, building a dam, and ironing in this 30 minute instructional video. Buy the Smooth course for just 40$ USD Find out more here: https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/smooth ✅ The special coupon is no long valid BUT you can still save when you bundle two or more courses! Find out more here: https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/category/bundles ✅ Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.sharybartlett.com/contact⁠ ✅Find out more at https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/flowing-light ✅https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/smooth ✅https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/luscious-lines ✅Learn more about my other courses here: https://www.sharybartlett.com/workshops

How do you infuse a glassy encaustic surface with bursting cells structures, delicate lacy patterns and crackly crazing? Alcohol inks never cease to amaze with their effervescent ability to delight. Learn to master these translucent inks on encaustic in this 30 minute video. ✅Buy the Flowing Light course for just 60$ USD ✅Find out more at https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/flowing-light ✅ The special coupon is no long valid BUT you can still save when you bundle two or more courses! Find out more here: https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/category/bundles ✅ Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.sharybartlett.com/contact⁠ ✅https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/smooth ✅https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/luscious-lines ✅Learn more about my other courses here: https://www.sharybartlett.com/workshops

Learn the properties of painting with alcohol ink using slick, synthetic Yupo paper. Once you've mastered the ink medium, apply your skills to the similarly smooth surface of encaustic beeswax. Fusing alcohol ink into encaustic introduces a further world of mesmerizing possibilities as the ink reacts to a molten wax surface. This 45 minute instructional video teaches you how to paint with alcohol ink on Yupo paper and outlines the many magical techniques painting alcohol on wax. ✅Buy the Flowing Light course for just 60$ USD ✅Find out more at https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/flowing-light ✅ The special coupon is no long valid BUT you can still save when you bundle two or more courses! Find out more here: https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/category/bundles ✅ Sign up for our newsletter: https://www.sharybartlett.com/contact⁠ ✅https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/smooth ✅https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/luscious-lines ✅Learn more about my other courses here: https://www.sharybartlett.com/workshops

Talk about a marriage made in heaven! Clear encaustic medium painted over flowing silk create a strong foundation and form for the fabric - and adding a sumptuous pour of coloured encaustic paint into the folds is like icing on the wedding cake! To learn how to combine encaustic wax and fabric, check out my videos in the Encaustic Masterclass, Painting with Fire: a full year of 52 masterclasses taught by 26 of the world's top encaustic instructors. Only $299 USD. Inspiring pre-recorded classes viewable for a lifetime. Sign up and learn more here.⁠ https://bit.ly/PWF22-23 Sign up for my mailing list and you will receive our newsletter packed with tips and tricks and newsletter member discounts! https://www.sharybartlett.com/contact⁠

Are you drawn to a photo enhanced with a smooth dreamy surface quality? I sure am! Here’s some ideas on how to work up your encaustic-laden photos with colour and texture using oils, pastels and hot tools like an electric stylus! I show you a myriad of ways to work with photos and encaustic wax in my instructional videos: ✅Smooth: How to create glassy encaustic surfaces: https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/smooth/buy ✅Luscious Lines: Writing with Encaustic Wax Tools: https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/luscious-lines/buy ✅Sign up for my mailing list and you will receive our newsletter packed with tips and tricks and newsletter member discounts! Sign up here: https://www.sharybartlett.com/contact ✅Learn more about my other courses here: https://www.sharybartlett.com/workshops

I love a smooth surface over photographs. It gives them a dreamy, slightly milky appearance that adds such a sense of story and intrigue. Photographs morph into fine art. To add further contrast, texture and colour, I enjoy using waterborne wax paints on the encaustic surface. ✅To learn more about pouring Encaustic wax over your photographs, check out my instructional video, Smooth: How to create glassy encaustic surfaces https://sharybartlett.newzenler.com/courses/smooth ✅Sign up for my Newsletter list and you will receive our newsletter packed with tips and tricks and newsletter member discounts! Sign up here: https://www.sharybartlett.com/contact ✅Learn more about my other courses here: https://www.sharybartlett.com/workshops