Lyn Belisle
Lyn Belisle
Lyn Belisle is an award-winning teacher, artist, designer and writer who has taught a range of fine arts, humanities, English, and graphic design throughout her career. As an undergraduate, Lyn studied art at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She taught art in public schools after graduation and was a finalist for Texas Teacher of the Year in 2001 for her work teaching art to at-risk students. In 2004, she joined the faculty on the Computer Science Department at Trinity as an instructor in computer applications and graphic design.
She teaches mixed-media workshops at Lyn Belisle Studio in San Antonio which she founded in January of 2013. She also teaches nationally, most recently in Taos, Santa Fe, Provincetown, and Washington State. After retiring from university teaching, she authored a suite of popular online mixed-media workshops at Lyn Belisle Studio on Teachable.
Lyn’s encaustic, clay, and mixed media work has recently been featured in Encaustic Arts Magazine (Winter 2020), and Wax Fusion online journal (Spring 2020, Fall 2020). She has written two articles for Cloth Paper Scissors magazine as well as a coloring book on the Folk Art of Mexico and has published four interactive eBooks.
Her signature media are earthenware, paper, encaustic and fiber. Lyn is an active member of the San Antonio Art League, the Fiber Artists of San Antonio, the San Antonio Potters’ Guild, the Encaustic Art institute, the International Encaustic Artists (Board Member), and The American Craft Council.
Lyn has had six one-person gallery exhibits since 2011. She has work at The Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe, Marta Stafford Fine Art in Marble Falls, Texas, and in the San Antonio Art League & Museum. She is Immediate Past President of the San Antonio Art League.
Website: www.lynbelisle.com
Online Teaching Studio: lyn-belisle-studio.teachable.com
Instagram: @lynbelislestudio
Classes with Lyn Belisle
The Shaman Spirit in Paper and Wax: Exploring simple mixed-media figure construction
The White Shaman murals were painted on rock in the lower Pecos River Valley of Texas 4000 years ago. These fascinating shamanic figures are elaborately executed in red, yellow, black, and white, but at other times plainly painted in only one color. Not only is there variability in the form and color of these figures, but also in the accoutrements and paraphernalia associated with them. Headdresses of varying types, clusters of feathers at the waist, and wrist or elbow tassels often adorn these humanlike figures.
This mural is the inspirational source of The Shaman Spirit in Paper and Wax: exploring simple mixed-media figure construction. Using simple materials – sticks, wax, pigment, sinew – we will create assembled figures that reflect the mystery and collective consciousness revealed through shamanic symbols and marks. Some of the explorations include:
Wax on paper, both monoprint and direct painting
Collage techniques
Waxed paper beads and adornments
Simple primitive figure construction
Face-making
Mark-making
Figure presentation
This is an all-level encaustic mixed/media workshop.