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.

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You can view Gina’s work at:

www.ginalouthian-stanley.com

Class Details

Intuitive Nature! Garden Inspirations

These lessons will focus on the use of thumbnail sketching and viewfinder technique, specifically for observing and considering nature at a variety of scales.

We will begin in the garden looking at the flowers and foliage creating thumbnails in our sketchbooks inspiration.

We will then take those thumbnails and we will add color using collage and a variety of materials.

Intuitive Nature - From the ‘Thumb’ to the Substrate (Part 2)

We will return to our sketchbooks from Intuitive Nature Part 1 and choose an image(s) and create on to the substrate using encaustic mediums and pigments along with mixed media and a plethora of tools to create and enhance our pieces to create the cultivation and evolution of our own botanical visualizations.