This multi-media course is for you if:
-You want a refresher or more skills to grow your monotype practice.
-You have yet to meet your goals or tapped your potential with the encaustic monotype process.
Paula can help you expand your toolkit and use mixed media selectively to enhance your encaustic works.
Mixed media is an excellent problem-solving tool, helping to complete or rescue prints by adding focal points or by unifying disparate elements.
Learn stratagies for resolving prints with mixed media without overworking them.
Watercolor and inks can achieve brilliant, saturated colors that brighten prints and easily fill large areas.
Precise line work is difficult with encaustic. Pencil, artist's crayon, drawing inks, and other media are perfect for adding bold marks or details, contours, or calligraphic elements.
Why take this course?
You will learn strategies with various media and advance more quickly by taking advantage of Paula’s 30 years of experience working with and teaching encaustic monotypes.
Paula can guide you in developing what you want and need to raise the level of your work to be on par with your paintings or other art.
Paula developed most of these processes and techniques for her own work and for that of her students.
HOW DOES THIS CLASS WORK?
Once you register, go to the Pre-class area in your curriculum, download the Supply List and handouts, and get busy shopping, reading, and reviewing.
Classes meet live on Zoom for four, 2-hour sessions with Paula. Demos will be shown in videos (everyone has a good seat!) or are presented live. There are in-depth Q&As and discussion. Class dates: September 10, 17, 24, October 8 from 1 - 3 pm CST.
Assignments are completed between Zoom sessions, in student's own studios.
Your works are shared on an easy to use and view app, Padlet. My assistant, Lori, is always there for tech help if needed.
The live class sessions are recorded in case you have to miss, or for you to easily review.
You have 3 months access to the recordings of the live sessions and the course curriculum.
Enrollment is limited to 20 participants.
You have an option to add personal coaching from Paula.
THIS CLASS IS FOR ALL LEVELS WITH BASIC ENCAUSTIC MONOTYPE EXPERIENCE.
What is covered in this course:
- Refining prints, problem-solving for unique effects
- Wet Media (inks--permanent and colored inks); Ink wash and watercolor,
- Dry media (graphite pencil, Stabilo pencil, colored pencil, oil/wax crayon and others)
- Oil stick and oil drawing sticks
- Ways to use cold wax medium with prints
- Finishes for paper
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Mounting/sealing and more
What are Focus Course
These are courses, designed by Paula Roland, that provide a deep dive into related monotype topics.
By taking a variety of the monotype "Focus" courses, like Mixed-Media & Monotypes, you are prepared to create most any type of encaustic print your imagination can dream up!
After this course, the last focus course for 2025 is
Focus: Abstracting the Figure and Landscape in Encaustic Monotype.Oct. 29, NOV 5, 12 , & 19
(Where we explore approaches to working additively and subtractively with the figure and landscape.) You will want to learn about mixed media monotypes before this course!
ABOUT PAULA ROLAND
Paula draws on over 35 years of professional experience in helping you realize your artistic goals. Paula began her journey with encaustic monotypes in the late 1990s, quickly becoming the “go-to” expert in this medium. Through her art, teaching and creation of the Roland HOTbox, she elevated the international profile of encaustic monotypes. For over 25 years, she has been a leading practitioner and instructor of encaustic on paper and panel. Paula exhibits and teaches encaustic painting as well as monotypes.
Roland's teaching experience includes teaching and curriculum development in colleges, museum education, and at nearly every level of art education.
Paula’s interest in broadening the scope of encaustic printmaking extended the process to include large scale monotypes and scrolls up to 35' in length; installation and translucent back-lit paper works; mixed mediums and monotypes; heated drawing; video projection on prints; and prints layered with encaustic or collage.
Paula Roland has an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of New Orleans, a BA from Dominican College, and Grad level education courses from Louisiana State University.
Don’t miss out on this class.
Paula creates a supportive and encouraging place to explore and get outside your comfort zone while giving you gentle and insightful feedback that helps you know what you need to do to achieve your artistic goals.
Testimonials
"Paula Roland teaches a most comprehensive encaustic monotype class in her enormous Santa Fe studio. The Intro class is well beyond an introduction, covering extensive variables in the process--beyond even her excellent DVD. While assuring that students leave with solid working knowledge and a very wide range of means and methods, Paula helps artists move their art forward as only this incredible teacher and the Roland HotBox™ allow."
~ Hylla E ~
"I'm thrilled to have the Pro box units here and they arrived in superb condition due to the great packaging. FedEx delivered in the morning and I got everything set up in just about 1/2 hour so was able to start playing around. I'm a long way away from 10,000 hours doing monotypes :) but I'm having fun and learning lots with each monotype. It's great! I began today's session by taking a finished encaustic painting and using the hotbox unit to melt off the globs of wax on the taped sides. I was able to then use that wax to start my monotypes. It's cool to know no wax needs to be wasted anymore!"
~ Pamela C. ~
"Paula Roland’s DVD, Encaustic Monotypes: Painterly Prints with Heat and Wax, (Studio Galli Films, 2010) is the video source for printing with wax. The title, which strategically places “painterly” before the “wax,” tells you what you need to know about the artist’s priorities. Roland, who studied with Dorothy Furlong Gardner, has been the contemporary impetus behind the encaustic monotype movement. Through her work, she is a role model for what is possible creatively in the medium.”
~ Joanne M. ~
"Paper, pigment and heat have become my new mantra. Your workshop is transformative and a revelation for any artist looking to inject new life into their practice. You cover so much, and are truly inspiring, but it is your supportive energy, keen eye, and guiding artistic spirit that really makes your workshop soar."
~ David C. ~
"The workshops were more than I could have imagined. Great teaching. You got me over some problems that you had no idea were there—me either for that matter—It was a great experience. I would do it again and probably will! Thank you."
~ Clara W. ~
"As an artist already familiar with encaustic painting, I came to your workshops with very high expectations and the specific goal of learning the process of encaustic printmaking. I believe that when you expect the best, you get the best. Your workshops did not disappoint me…your approach coupled with your organizational skills and artistic excellence produced two workshops at the highest level."
~ Diana G. ~
FAQ:
Q: Is a Roland HOTbox required?
A: While the HOTbox is absolutely the best tool for monotypes, some have substituted an electric griddle with an anodized aluminum plate.
Q: Where do I buy a Roland HOTbox?
Q: How can I find out more about the HOTbox?
A: Check out these blog posts: The Roland HOTbox—Getting Started & Basics and the HOTbox FAQS & Tips.
Q: I have more questions. How do I reach you?
A: You can email Paula at [email protected]