What you will learn during these two days

• how to use cold wax medium with oils

• all about the tools we use when painting with cold wax

• all about the different surfaces

• understanding drying time

• working wet on wet

• building layers of colour

• creating textures and lines using a variety of tools and techniques

• using opaque and transparent colours

• incorporating pigments, pan pastels or other loose powders into your work

• using glazes to create veils of colour

• masking and stencilling techniques

• exploring colour, value and contrast

Art materials listed below

• Your lunch (tea, coffee, snacks to nibble provided)

• Reference pictures if you want to paint figurative or get ideas for an abstract painting

• Clothes that don’t mind a splash of paint, painting with cold wax can be a messy process!

• A sense of fun and a loose mindset

Art Materials supply list

I will be bring the cold wax (you will leave with your own pot) and oil paints, oil sticks, pan pastels etc. plus many other materials/tools

You will have to bring:

support: at least 5 to 7 different supports: a bloc of Arches oil paper or other mixed media paper (30x40) and/or several (small) canvasses, (cradled) panels (preferably already gessoed with two layers), canvas board. You can also use watercolour paper but that has to be gessoed prior to class.

Nice to have but not necessary: texture tools, stamps, stencils, pigments, oil bars etc..

Keep in mind you have to transport your wet work at home at the end of the workshop, you can cover them with baking paper, store them in pizza boxes etc..

What students say..

"A few months ago, I had the pleasure of discovering Marina's very beautiful works while leafing through the magazine "Pratique des Arts". A chance because she offers initiation workshops to her cold wax techniques. Marina leads the two days of training in a friendly atmosphere with great professionalism. Everything is explained step by step with clarity, precision and empathy. We immediately get to the heart of the matter and it is very gratifying. The soft texture of the wax combined with the oil paint allows to obtain spectacular backgrounds and patterns. It will allow me to add a technique of incomparable richness to my rather figurative and detailed artistic practice. Thank you Marina! "Jacqueline R.

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I love Marina's paintings. I had a real crush on her work during a recent exhibition. I didn't know anything about the oil painting technique based on cold wax. I got interested in it and I had the great chance to participate in a 2-day workshop in her studio, to learn this technique. At the end of these 2 days, I am delighted, 1) because Marina is an artist who knows how to pass on her knowledge and her art, also because everything happened in an atmosphere that is both studious and relaxed. I come away with ideas to develop my work that I found a little too classic. Thank you very much Marina for these 2 days of lessons. Good continuation for your magnificent work of artist. 🙏 Marie-France D.

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