Dietlind Vander SchaafEncaustic: Layers, Translucency & See Throughs

July 13 - July 18, 2025 Go back
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Layers, Translucency, and See Throughs focuses on building encaustic paintings from the ground up addressing what can be done directly onto a substrate, between layers of medium, and on the surface, as well as how to create a smooth even surface. Emphasis will be placed on creating a sense of radiant light, on the balance and weight of composition, and on expressing meaning through an exploration of accumulating marks and drawings at varying levels.

Check In: July 13, 2025

Check Out: July 18, 2025

Tuition + Meals: $1,400
With TreeHaus Twin Lodging Package: $2,495
With TreeHaus Queen Lodging Package: $2,745
With RicePod Twin Lodging Package: $2,995
With RicePod Queen Lodging Package: $3,145
With Nest Lodging Package: $3,445

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Class description

Layers & Translucency focuses on building encaustic paintings from the ground up addressing what can be done directly onto a substrate, between layers of medium, and on the surface, as well as how to create a smooth even surface. Emphasis will be placed on creating a sense of radiant light, on the balance and weight of composition, and on expressing meaning through an exploration of accumulating marks and drawings at varying levels. Materials used include encaustic paint and medium, Pigment Sticks, Blending Medium, Pan Pastel, charcoal, graphite, oil pastel, Deco Foil, and India ink. 

Begin your day with a light breakfast, practice yoga, enjoy brunch, take walks in nature, paint for hours, and then slip into the sauna. Each student will have 1:1 time with the instructor. Participants should have a basic mastery of encaustic technique.

biography

Dietlind Vander Schaaf has exhibited at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Fuller Craft Museum, and On Center Gallery, among others, and been featured in Maine Home + Design, Decor Maine, UPPERCASE, and Downeast magazines.

Vander Schaaf is a Core Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints, an Ampersand Ambassador, and the former president of New England Wax. She has taught workshops throughout the country, including Haystack, Arrowmont, Castle Hill, Snow Farm, Penland, Maine College of Art, R&F, and internationally at Zijdelings in The Netherlands, Essence of Mulranny in Ireland, and Kunstfreiraum in Switzerland. The recipient of grants from the Maine Arts Commission and International Encaustic Artists, as well as a Tending Space Artist Fellowship from the Hemera Foundation, she is represented by Portland Art Gallery and Artemis Gallery. Vander Schaaf is a 500 hr Kripalu yoga instructor with specialty training in meditation, advanced asana, Ayurveda, vinyasa, and pranayama.

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Supply List

Students should bring the following items.

- A variety of natural bristle brushes including several hake brushes - At least one of the hake brushes should be a 4” brush

- A potter’s needle for mark making

- A pear-shaped loop tool for trimming and smaller loop tools for carving

- A Catalyst silicone wedge for manipulating paint

- A roll of blue painter’s tape

- Assorted unprimed wood panels or Ampersand Encausticbord panels (nothing larger than 14” x 14”)

- A notebook and pen for writing exercises

- A variety of drawing materials including graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, pencil, fine-tipped pens, etc

- A pad of paper for mark making and drawing exercises

- A roll of wax paper

- An apron

- Optional: stencils