Gina Louthian

Gina Louthian-Stanley is a multi-media artist, writer, and workshop instructor born and living in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. As a young girl she was constantly creating in every way imaginable. After “discovering” printmaking in her first year in college, Louthian-Stanley created her thesis works in monotype; she has primarily been a monotype printmaker since the late 70'S. While many areas of art and types of media interest Gina, she began her ‘wax’ journey in 2006, never looking back. Using Encaustic techniques which allow her to find the juxtaposition of transparent and opaque layers coupled with texture so often identified with her work.  She has become a master at manipulating the versatility, permanence, and textures of the medium. Each piece usually begins without a preconceived image, evolving as she creates a final image.  Louthian-Stanley's works represent the physical and emotional sensations, which carry the viewer into an intimate visual narrative, typically relating to the Earth and Sky surrounding her.

Recognition of Gina’s accomplishments in art have been ongoing, with multiple honors, awards and publications touting her ability to visually capture the natural world in a variety of mediums, especially encaustic and cold wax. Aside from having many individual clients, Gina’s art pieces have been added to several publications, gallery and corporate permanent collections around the world.

You can view Gina’s work at www.ginalouthian-stanley.com

Class Details

Embracing the Journey: Creating 3-D Works with Plaster and Creating Assemblages

We will be investigating the sculptural possibilities of plaster cloth making two 3-dimensional forms which best represent your artistic voice, symbols, or creative expressions.

Rigid and absorbent when dry, plaster cloth makes a wonderful support for dimensional encaustic work. In Lesson One, we will begin working with floral foam and other found objects and materials to enhance our 3-D  structures as we begin this process.

Once the forms are created and dry, Lesson Two will cover working from visual images, composition of found objects, ephemera and various papers, applying encaustic medium and pigments, how to make cold connections of metal objects and various mark-making techniques. We will explore the important intuitive aspects of art-making. Many of the methods and ideas you have already learned from remarkable previous lessons. They are excellent techniques to try in this particular process of assembling 3-D.