Lyn Belisle
Lyn Belisle
Earthenware, assemblage, beeswax, photography and fiber are just some of the ingredients in Lyn Belisle’s collage of life. Trained as a studio artist at Trinity University, Lyn’s path took her into art education for at-risk teenagers for 35 years. During that time, she established a reputation as an outstanding teacher (she was a finalist of Texas State Teacher of the Year in 2000) and as a Fine Art Collagist with her large-scale origami kimonos and her acrylic paintings on paper which were exhibited nation-wide.
She retired from public school in 2003 to join the Computer Science faculty at Trinity University and taught Information Technology for twelve years, sneaking in art and design at every opportunity. In 2013, she established Lyn Belisle Studio in San Antonio where she designed and taught workshops on such topics as Indigo and Rust dyeing, Wax and Tissue Collage, Wax and Collage, Book Construction, Altered Photography Transfers on Fiber, Abstract Painting for Beginners, and Found Object Assemblage.
Lyn is the Vice President of the Board of the International Encaustics Artists, and has taught encaustic mixed-media workshops nationwide in Taos, Santa Fe, Provincetown, Morro Bay, Boston, Washington State, and other venues. She is the author of five popular eBooks and has written articles for Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine. Her work can be found in the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe and in the San Antonio Art League & Museum. Creativity runs in the family. She is the mother of bestselling author Rick Riordan, her favorite artistic creation.
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Class Details
Unfolding Stories
In this workshop, Lyn Belisle shows how to work in a series of three, five, or seven small panels to create layered encaustic collages, works that fascinate through implied narrative stories.
Conceptualizing the series is part of the process, the part that makes it personal. We will work in two ways – one, starting with separate panels, and two, starting with a larger substrate that can be cut.
When the panels are finished Lyn will guide us through two ways to assemble into standing screens, art objects that can be configured in many ways. The idea of working with panels that are narratively related opens up a whole area of studio studies that encourage exploration and enthusiasm.
This is an all-level encaustic mixed-media workshop.
The Birds and the Beads
Beeswax and encaustic medium as a surface enhancer have almost unlimited uses as long as the surface is wax-friendly. One of the most satisfying ways to experiment with this idea is on small objects such as beads and other enhancements for mixed media work and assemblage.
In this mini-workshop, Lyn will guide you through working with air-dry clay as a substrate for the wax and show you techniques that produce enchanting surfaces on beads, birds, talismans and more. Lyn will also give you ideas on how to use these completely unique adornments.
The Birds and Beads techniques will expand your encaustic/mixed media repertoire and dazzle your dimensional creations with richness.
