We’re going to be working with your images and turning them upside down (figuratively for sure and maybe quite literally). I’m going to introduce you to new techniques and new materials and while it’s going to be awesome, I gotta tell you it might be very frustrating as well. Please, please, please work through these frustrations. Talk about it in the Facebook group, ask me questions, look up resources online, and experiment. It won’t always be easy but you can and will get through these frustrations, I promise.

1. Learn to Play. There are some basic rules to encaustic (and believe me I will be repeating them over and over), but otherwise it’s up to you to play. We all come to the class with different images, different aesthetics, and different visions. You’re here to explore photo encaustics and how you can incorporate the techniques into your work.

2. Push Yourself. Not everything is going to turn out as you first envisioned. And that can get uncomfortable. Learn from what doesn’t work as much as from what does work. This is a new way of looking at and working with your images. So, of course, it’s going to get uncomfortable. But keep going……that’s where the learning is greatest.

3. Curb the Urge to Compare. This course has students at all different levels of experience. Some of you consider yourself amateurs and some of you are professional photographers. Some have been painting for years and some are just picking up a paintbrush for the first time. So be aware as you scroll through images and content in the FB group; choose to be inspired by what you are seeing rather than comparing their work to your own.