Mark your calendars!

Saturday, May 1st from 1pm-4pm

This coming weekend R&F has teamed up with Jerry’s Artarama in West Hartford, CT and artist Leslie Giuliani for a demonstration of materials and techniques in Encaustic Painting on Saturday, May 1st from 1-4pm at:

Jerry’s Artarama of CT
1109 New Britain Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06110
860-232-0073

Leslie will demonstrate the uses of both encaustic paint and Pigment Sticks.  There will be supplies on-hand for participants to use.  This is a great way to explore encaustic painting.

The demonstration is $10.  With your registration fee you will receive Free Samples and a $ Saving Event Coupon.  Call 860-232-0073 for more information and to reserve your space.

Artwork: Leslie Giuliani, Ritual, 2003.  Encaustic on wood.

About Leslie:
Leslie Giuliani received her BFA from the University of Delaware and has studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the School of Sacred Arts, and the Finishing School. She has an extensive education in the materials of making art. Her work is in the collection of the State of Connecticut and has been featured in two international encaustic biennial exhibitions and the national touring exhibition Oil and Wax. She incorporates printmaking, drawing, collage, and textiles in her own encaustic pieces. She has been an independent teacher for 15 years.

Sunday, May 2nd from 11am-2pm

On  Sunday, May 2nd R&F and artist Kristin Swenson-Lintault will be celebrating the Grand Opening of  Blick Art Materials in Seattle, WA with a free encaustic  demonstration from 11am-2pm.  Additional information regarding the Grand Opening events  can be found on Dick Blick’s website or by clicking here.  This event is a great chance visit Blick’ new art store, meet Kristin, and try your hand at encaustic painting.  Kristin will have materials available so that all participants can express themselves with paint.

Blick Art Materials
1600 Broadway Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
206-324-0750

About Kristin:
Kristin Swenson-Lintault is a multi-media artist (born 1969) in Kentucky, raised in Illinois, and currently lives in Seattle, WA. with husband and son. She earned her MFA in Fiber/Textiles and BA in Fine Art-Drawing at Southern Illinois University. She studied painting at Hospitalfield House, a 13C. Studio Arts Centre in Scotland and studied traditional natural dye and indigo textile printing and dyeing, washi papermaking, and wood fired ceramics in Japan and South Korea. In addition she has traveled to France, Netherlands, Germany, Mexico and Belize to research art, history and architecture.

In 2001, after a visit to R&F Handmade Paints to witness encaustic paint production, she began combining aspects of her earlier approach to drawing, painting, textile dyeing and printing, paper pulp painting, floor cloths, ceramics, outdoor installations, and photography, into her encaustic painting. Her encaustic paintings were juried into the first 2007 Annual Encaustic Conference exhibition as well as last year’s 2009 Conference show at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA.  Her KSL STUDIO blog is her art studio journal of recent work, sketchbook drawings and travel photos that together explore her creative process. Kristin teaches mixed media encaustic painting workshops with a fiber/textile emphasis at her studio in Seattle.

R&F Handmade Paints has introduced a new bagged Encaustic Medium in pellet form. This medium is 45% less expensive by weight due to an innovative manufacturing process. Made of the same 100% Pharmaceutical Grade beeswax and damar resin as our popular cakes, this product is used to create transparency and extend encaustic paints. R&F’s medium is still available in standard cakes as well as in pellet form.

Bagged medium is available in convenient (1) one, (5) five, and (10) ten pound bags. Click here for a list of Retail Outlets in your area.

The 1st of  a series of free encaustic demos for kids was a huge success at the Encaustic Art Institute in Cerillos, New Mexico!  EAI’s Educational Director, Carol Ware and Program Director, Russell Thurston gave a  hands-on demo at the opening of  the “Hot Wax” exhibition, where, as you can see, the parents seemed to enjoy trying encaustic painting as much as the kids.  Move over Hasbro - R&F is coming to town!

Check out these families working with our paints on the Paula Roland HotBox for encaustic  printmaking.

R&F Handmade Paints donated materials for this project, and we look forward to future collaborations with the Encaustic Art Institute.

R&F will be presenting another workshop at EAI this August.  Gina Adams will be the instructor, and it promises to be a wonderful workshop.  For more info, or to enroll, please visit; August 4-8 EAI Workshop

This Sunday, April 11th a screening of Casting Faith, a one- hour documentary about sculptor and local Hudson Valley resident  Gillian Jagger, by Accord filmmakers Barbara Gordon and Richard Schlesinger will be shown at the Rosendale Theater.  The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist, Gillian Jagger, art critic, Michael Brenson, and the filmmakers. This event is sponsored by the Women’s Studio Workshop.

More information about Gillian Jagger can be found on her website.  For the street address and additional information about the Rosendale Theater Collective please visit their facebook page.